AP CALCULUS

 

Welcome AP Calculus Students

In this page you will find all the information you need to be successful this school year. For each quarter you will find the homework assignments, worksheets, activities, projects, quiz and test dates, review guides and lots of information about the AP Calculus exam. 

TEXTBOOKS

1. Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic by Finney, Demana, Waits, and Kennedy

Finney, Demana, Waits, Kennedy, Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, 3rd Edition: AP* Student Edition (HS Binding) (NATL)

CONTENT:
  • 1. Prerequisites for Calculus
  • 2. Limits and Continuity
  • 3. Derivatives
  • 4. Applications of Derivatives
  • 5. The Definite Integral
  • 6. Differential Equations and Mathematical Modeling
  • 7. Applications of Definite Integrals

Extra practice  for the AP Exam:

Barron’s AP Calculus 2009, 9th edition

Shirley O. Hockett and David Bock

ISBN 13: 978-0-7641-9328-6 (book/CD Rom package)

Extra Textbook:

Calculus by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards 8th Edition

QUARTER INFORMATION

First Quarter Information

Second Quarter Information

Third Quarter Information

Fourth Quarter Information

AP IMPORTANT INFORMATION

AP Calculus Overview

AP Calculus Outline

AP Calculus Contract

USEFUL AP WEBSITES

AP Calculus Calendar and College Board Information:

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/cal.html

AP Calculus Course Description:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap08_calculus_coursedesc.pdf

AP Calculus Exams

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/calculus_ab/samp.html

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/prep_free.html

Lessons and worksheets

http://www.chaoticgolf.com/downloads.html (worksheets for textbook by Finney)

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/CalcI.aspx (lessons)

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ (tables, formulas)

http://www.intmath.com/Calculus/Calculus-intro.php (interactive lessons)

Math movies

http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/index.html

Math demonstrations

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/topics.html#2

Free software

http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/

USEFUL FORMULAS

Products and Factoring

Trigonometric Identities Hexagon

Formulas for derivatives

Formulas for integrals

Other Trigonometric Identities