AP Calculus AB
Calculus AB is primarily concerned with developing the understanding of the concepts of calculus and providing experience with its methods and applications. This course emphasizes a multirepresentational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. The connections among these representations also are important. Calculus AB is intended to be
challenging and demanding. Broad concepts and widely applicable methods are emphasized. The focus of Calculus AB is neither manipulation nor memorization of an extensive taxonomy of functions, curves, theorems, or problem types. Technology should be used regularly by students and teachers to reinforce the relationships among the multiple representations of functions, to confirm written work, to implement experimentation, and to assist in interpreting results. Through the use of the unifying themes of derivatives, integrals, limits, approximation, and applications and modeling, the course becomes a cohesive whole, rather than a collection of unrelated topics. |
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