AB Calculus

Friday, April 27, 2007

The run up to the final/AP

Here is the syllabus:

4/13-4/23  Work on 1997 Multiple Choice packet

4/23  Go over questions on old tests and review quiz 4
4/24  Go over review quizzes 1-3 and 1998 Multiple Choice 1-13
           HW 1998 Multiple Choice 14-25
4/26  1998 Open Response 1-3
           HW 1998 Multiple Choice 76-92
4/27  1998 Open Response 4-6
           HW 2003 Multiple Choice Part A

4/30  2003 Open Response 1-3
           HW 2003 Multiple Choice Part B
5/01  2003 Open Response 4-6
           HW Study

5/03  Non-Calculator portion of the Final
           (12 multiple choice, 1 open response)

5/04  Calculator portion of the Final
           (6 multiple choice, 2 open response)
           HW One additional Open Response problem

5/07  Go over final exam
5/08  Answer Last Questions, maybe cake

5/09  AP Exam at 8am


Saturday, April 07, 2007

Polar Coordinates and Calculus

We are looking at sections 10.5 and 10.6 which deal with polar coordinates. Thursday was a review of what they are, Monday is about using them in calculus applications (tangent slopes, area, length of a curve, surface area). Here is the schedule up to the AP Exam.

4/05  Intro to Polar Coordinates (worksheet)

4/09  Calculus of Polar Curves
           HW p.566-568/3,6,12,15,16,18,20,25,28,31,38,39,42-45
           you may do 47 and 48 as extra credit (due Friday)

4/10  Review for Length and Surface Area Quiz

4/12  Length and Surface Area Quiz

4/13  Review Quiz 5

4/14-4/22 April Vacation

4/23-5/01  Review of Calculus so far

5/03-5/04  Final Exam

5/07  Return Final Exams and discuss

5/08  Questions ?

5/09  8am  AP Exam

Monday, April 02, 2007

Dipping into Chapter 10

We will be doing a bit of Chapter 10.
Today we flew through sections 10.1-10.3 picking
up ideas about parametric and vector functions.

Make sure you get through the following problems
(as classwork or delayed homework)
p.518-519/5,10,15,20,21,23,30
p.537/5,10,11,15,29,33