1 AP® Calculus BC Course Syllabus Course Description AP Calculus BC is a two-semester course in which students study functions, limits, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This document outlines the topics and subtopics that are covered in each chapter/unit. Throughout the course, students write and work with functions represented by written descriptions, mathematical rules, graphs and tabular data. Students develop and practice skills using a graphing calculator to solve problems, experiment, interpret results, and support their conclusions. Students learn the meaning of the derivative and apply it to a variety of problems while developing a deeper understanding of the meaning of the solutions to those problems. Students study integrals and learn the relationship between the derivative and the definite integral, using written work and graphing technology to explore and interpret this relationship. Students discover how calculus is used to model real-world phenomena by using functions, differential equations, integrals, and graphing technology to solve problems, support solutions, and interpret findings. Students communicate mathematics to the teacher through course participation and written work and to peers through a discussion forum monitored by the teacher. Students communicate about mathematics through written work and discussion forums with peers that are monitored by the teacher. Asynchronous and synchronous discussion activities throughout the course provide multiple opportunities for students to interact with each other and share ideas about math problems and problem-solving strategies. Discussions include opportunities for students to work in small groups where they collaborate on specific assignments. The syllabus outline indicates where these discussions occur and what the topics are. The teacher hosts and facilitates weekly synchronous sessions with students who are enrolled in this course. In these regularly scheduled sessions, students communicate with each other and with the teacher about course content and assignments. These synchronous sessions allow for timely verbal dialogue about AP Calculus BC content and course assignments. As needed, the teacher guides students through appropriate explanations of assigned problems and solution sets. Helpful guidelines for these sessions are provided to the teacher. All students enrolled in this course are assigned to a “section” with a qualified teacher who is responsible for ensuring student success and addressing student questions, problems, and concerns. In addition, each student must have a mentor available at their school or at home to support the student and make sure assignments are completed in a timely manner. The content and reference materials for this course align with College Board frameworks and College Board approved textbooks.
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AP® Calculus BC Course Syllabus
Course Description AP Calculus BC is a two-semester course in which students study functions, limits, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This document outlines the topics and subtopics that are covered in each chapter/unit.
Throughout the course, students write and work with functions represented by written descriptions, mathematical rules, graphs and tabular data. Students develop and practice skills using a graphing calculator to solve problems, experiment, interpret results, and support their conclusions. Students learn the meaning of the derivative and apply it to a variety of problems while developing a deeper understanding of the meaning of the solutions to those problems. Students study integrals and learn the relationship between the derivative and the definite integral, using written work and graphing technology to explore and interpret this relationship.
Students discover how calculus is used to model real-world phenomena by using functions, differential equations, integrals, and graphing technology to solve problems, support solutions, and interpret findings. Students communicate mathematics to the teacher through course participation and written work and to peers through a discussion forum monitored by the teacher.
Students communicate about mathematics through written work and discussion forums with peers that are monitored by the teacher. Asynchronous and synchronous discussion activities throughout the course provide multiple opportunities for students to interact with each other and share ideas about math problems and problem-solving strategies. Discussions include opportunities for students to work in small groups where they collaborate on specific assignments. The syllabus outline indicates where these discussions occur and what the topics are.
The teacher hosts and facilitates weekly synchronous sessions with students who are enrolled in this course. In these regularly scheduled sessions, students communicate with each other and with the teacher about course content and assignments. These synchronous sessions allow for timely verbal dialogue about AP Calculus BC content and course assignments. As needed, the teacher guides students through appropriate explanations of assigned problems and solution sets. Helpful guidelines for these sessions are provided to the teacher.
All students enrolled in this course are assigned to a “section” with a qualified teacher who is responsible for ensuring student success and addressing student questions, problems, and concerns. In addition, each student must have a mentor available at their school or at home to support the student and make sure assignments are completed in a timely manner.
The content and reference materials for this course align with College Board frameworks and College Board approved textbooks.
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Course Prerequisites Algebra II, Geometry, Pre-Calculus with Trigonometry
Course Materials This online course offers instructional content that incorporates required topics in a balanced and comprehensive sequence. Online digital instruction includes text, figures, graphic elements, carefully structured problem sets, exploration guides, and graphing calculator instructions to convey and highlight important information and provide students with specific applications of concepts they are studying.
The required virtual content for this course is covered in:
Thomas, Paul et al. (editors). AP Calculus BC, K12 digital edition. Herndon, VA: 2012.
In addition, students should have this required (printed) textbook: Larson, Ron, and Bruce H. Edwards. Calculus of a Single Variable, AP Edition (9th ed.), Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, 2010. [ISBN: 0547212909]
The following additional textbooks (optional) may be used to supplement the material presented in this course:
Finney, Ross L., Franklin Demana, Bert Waits, and Daniel Kennedy. Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic (3rd ed.), Boston: Pearson Addison Wesley, 2007. [ISBN: 0132014084]
Specific information for use of these texts with course content appear at the end of this document.
The student or the school must purchase a TI-84 Plus calculator (or similar calculator approved by the College Board) for the AP Calculus BC Exam.
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Types of Instructional Activities in This Course
Activity Type Learn Description
Video Lecture
Primary instructional content is presented online to introduce and teach new concepts through multimedia and interactive experiences.
Explore
Paper and pencil activities are included in Explore activities, as well as graphing calculator activities to show students key steps for using calculators to explore, experiment, interpret findings, and/or support their conclusions.
Discuss
Students discuss topics in an online threaded discussion board forum. Teachers participate in these discussions, and students receive credit for appropriate participation. Synchronous, teacher-led “Class Connect” sessions occur multiple times each week. In these sessions students communicate orally to demonstrate how their mathematical reasoning applies to key concepts.
Activity Type Practice Description
Try It
Students answer online, computer-scored (ungraded) questions to help them synthesize what they have learned in a lesson. This helps them think about the content before applying it in a problem set. Every lesson with Video Lectures includes six to ten Try It questions.
Problem Set
Every lesson with Video Lectures has a Problem Set in which students work offline to practice what they have learned. One Problem Set is provided as a PDF for each lesson. Each lesson also includes suggested assignments for each of the three recommended textbooks.
Activity Type Assessment Description
Quiz Most lessons include a Quiz, which is a computer-graded assessment.
Review Lesson
Review Lessons cover the material presented in a specific unit or semester. Calculator skills are also reviewed in these lessons to help prepare students to use them on tests and exams.
Unit Test
A Unit Test is an assessment of material covered in a given unit. Each test is modeled after the AP Exam. Students complete certain portions of the test using graphing calculators, but are prohibited from using them on other parts of the tests. Each test includes a computer-graded, multiple-choice section plus a free-response section that is teacher graded in accordance with a detailed rubric.
Semester Exam
A comprehensive Semester Exam is administered at the end of each semester. Students are required to use graphing calculators to solve problems, experiment, interpret results, support their conclusions, and verify hand-written work. The semester exam is modeled after the AP Exam; students complete certain parts of the exam using graphing calculators, but are prohibited from using them on other parts of the exam.
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Course Outline
Semester A
Unit 1: The Basics (~17 Days)
Students prepare to study calculus by reviewing basic pre-calculus concepts from algebra and trigonometry. They learn what calculus is, why it was invented, and what it is used for.
Pre-Calculus Review Introduction to Calculus • Video Lectures: The Study of Change, History of Calculus, Calculus Today, The Study of Calculus • Discussion: Introduction
Using a Graphing Calculator • Graphing Calculator: Finding Zeros of Functions
Combining Functions • Video Lectures: Sums, Differences, Products, Quotients
Composite and Inverse Functions • Video Lectures: Composite Functions, Composite Domains, Inverse Functions, Domains of Inverse
Functions • Graphing Calculator: Exploring Functions Graphically and Numerically
Graphical Symmetry • Video Lectures: Symmetry, Even and Odd Functions, Inverse Is Reflection of Original
Patterns in Graphs • Video Lectures: Function Families, Rules, Absolute Value • Graphing Calculator: Shifting and Exploring Function Graphs
Unit Review Unit Test
Unit 2: Limits and Continuity (~16 Days) This unit addresses Topic I: Functions, Graphs, and Limits of the College Board’s Calculus BC topic outline. Students learn two important concepts that underlie all of calculus: limits and continuity. Limits help students understand differentiation (the slope of a curve) and integration (the area inside a curved shape). Continuity is an important property of functions.
Introduction • Video Lectures: Limits, Unequal Limits, Ways to Find Limits
Finding Limits Analytically • Video Lectures: Identities, Factoring and Rationalizing, Trigonometric
Asymptotes as Limits • Video Lectures: Asymptotes Revisited, Horizontal Asymptotes, Vertical Asymptotes, Drawing a
Graph with Asymptote Information,
Relative Magnitudes for Limits • Video Lectures: Comparing Algebraic Functions, Comparing Exponential Functions, Comparing
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Exponential Functions to Algebraic Polynomials and Power Functions • Discussion: Analyzing Examples of Infinities
When Limits Do and Don’t Exist • Video Lectures: Vertical Asymptotes, Left-and-Right Hand Limits Don’t Match, Oscillating Limits
Continuity • Video Lectures: What Is Continuity?, Discontinuity Types: Jump, Discontinuity Types: Infinite,
Discontinuity Types: Removable, All Together
Intermediate and Extreme Value Theorems • Video Lectures: The Intermediate Value Theorem, The Extreme Value Theorem • Discussion: Limits and the Predator/Prey Model
Unit Review Unit Test
Unit 3: The Derivative (~25 Days) This unit addresses Topic II: Derivatives of the College Board’s Calculus BC topic outline. Students learn how to calculate a derivative, the slope of a curve at a specific point. They learn techniques for finding derivatives of algebraic functions (such as y = x2) and trigonometric functions (such as y = sin x). Students also interpret the derivative as a rate of change and move fluidly between multiple representations including graphs, tables, and equations.
Introduction: Slope and Change • Video Lectures: Slope, Instantaneous Rate of Change
Derivative at a Point • Video Lectures: Slope of Curve, Differentiable, Calculating the Derivative • Graphing Calculator: Computing the Derivative of a Function Numerically
The Derivative • Video Lectures: Finding and Using the Derivative Function, Units, Slope, Notation
The Power Rule • Video Lectures: The Derivative as a Function, The Power Rule, Trigonometric Derivatives • Discussion: Discovering Rules for Derivatives
Sums, Differences, Products, and Quotients • Video Lectures: Sums, Products, Quotients, Applying the Quotient Rule
Graphs of Functions and Derivatives • Video Lectures: Zeros, Extreme Values, Steepness, Graphical Differentiation, Non Differentiable
Continuity and Differentiability • Video Lectures: Review, Discontinuous, Continuous, Differentiable
Rolle’s and Mean Value Theorems • Video Lectures: Rolle’s, Mean Value
Higher-Order Derivatives
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• Graphing Calculator: Higher-Order Derivatives
Concavity • Video Lectures: The Second Derivative, Inflection Points
Chain Rule
• Video Lectures: Units, Chain Rule, Applying the Chain Rule, Derivatives of Complicated Functions
Implicit Differentiation • Video Lectures: Implicit Equations and Their Derivatives, Derivative of an Ellipse, Derivative of a
Circle and a Hyperbola, Tough Analytical Derivatives
Unit Review Unit Test
Unit 4: Rates of Change (~17 Days)
This unit focuses on Second Derivatives and Applications of Derivatives within Topic II: Derivatives of the College Board’s Calculus BC topic outline. Students learn how to use calculus to model and analyze changing aspects of our world. In addition to the AB topics in this unit, BC students analyze polar and vector-valued functions.
Introduction • Exploration: Maximums
Extrema • Video Lectures: Extrema, First Derivative Test, Sketching with the Second Derivative, Second
Derivative Test
Optimization • Video Lectures: Minimizing, Maximizing, Sketching with the Second Derivative, Travel Time,
Travel Time 2 • Discussion: Applications of Optimization
Tangent and Normal Lines • Video Lectures: The Tangent Line to a Curve, Normal Line, Finding Lines • Discussion: Linear Approximations of sin x
Tangents to Polar Curves • Video Lectures: Polar Form of the Derivative, Tangents to Polar Curves, Horizontal and Vertical
Tangents to Polar Curves
Tangent Line Approximation • Video Lectures: Local Linearity, Approximation, Calculator,
Rates and Derivatives • Video Lectures: Rates of Change as Derivatives, Economics, Translating • Discussion: Uses of Rates in Real-World Applications
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Related Rates • Video Lectures: Related Rates are Applications of the Chain Rule, Related Rates Story Problems
Technique, Commonly Needed Formulas and Rules
Rectilinear Motion • Video Lectures: Rectilinear, Speed & Velocity • Graphing Calculator: Velocity and Acceleration
Motion with Vector Functions • Video Lectures: Magnitude and Direction, Decomposing into Components, Velocity and
Acceleration Vectors
Unit Review Unit Test
Unit 5: The Integral, Part 1 (~16 Days)
This unit focuses on Topic III: Integrals in the College Board’s Calculus BC topic outline. Students learn numerical approximations to definite integrals, interpretations and properties of definite integrals, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and techniques of anti-differentiation. They learn how to find areas of curved shapes.
Introduction • Graphing Calculator: Analyzing Velocity and Distance for a Car Trip
Riemann Sums • Video Lectures: Area, Approximating Area, Inscribed and Circumscribed Rectangles, Improving
the Estimate, Riemann Sums
Area Approximations • Video Lectures: Trapezoid Rule, From a Function with a Formula, From a Function Graph, From
Numerical Data, Error
The Definite Integral • Video Lectures: Many Intervals, Definite Integral, Evaluating Definite Integrals, Approximating
Numerically, Limit of Sums • Graphing Calculator: Taking More Intervals
Properties of Integrals • Video Lectures: Signed Area, Properties, Using Rules
Graphing Calculator: Integration • Graphing Calculator: Using fnint()
Applications of Accumulated Change • Video Lectures: Accumulation, Average Value, Velocity Curves, Exercises, Accumulated Change
Antiderivatives
• Video Lectures: Going Backwards, Antiderivatives, Some Rules, Differential Equations • Going Between Position, Velocity, and Acceleration
Composite Functions
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• Video Lectures: Chain Rule, Differential Form, Substitution, Another Substitution Example, Practice, Guess & Check, Guess & Check II
Unit Review Unit Test
Semester B
Unit 1: The Integral, Part 2 (~10 Days)
This unit focuses on Topic III: Integrals in the College Board’s Calculus BC topic outline. Students learn the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and techniques of anti-differentiation. They learn how to find areas of curved shapes.
The Fundamental Theorems of Calculus • Video Lectures: Area Functions, The First Fundamental Theorem, The Second Fundamental
Theorem, Units, Names
Definite Integrals of Composite Functions • Video Lectures: Fundamental Theorems, Definite Integrals, Area, Upper Limits, Strange
Substitutions, When to Substitute
Analyzing Functions and Integrals • Video Lectures: Leibniz’s Rule, Leibniz’s Rule II, Area Functions, Analyzing Functions, One More
Analyzing Functions Example
Unit Review Unit Test
Unit 2: Applications of Integrals (~13 Days)
This unit focuses on Topic III: Integrals in the College Board’s Calculus BC topic outline. Students learn to use integrals and antiderivatives to solve problems. In addition to the AB topics, BC students learn to calculate arc length for a smooth curve.
Introduction and Area between Curves • Video Lectures: Accumulation, Two Curves, Multiple Curves, Cutting Area Horizontally
More Areas and Averages • Video Lectures: Area Problems, No Formula?, Working Backwards
Volumes of Revolution • Video Lectures: Principles, A Calculus View of Volume, Solids of Revolution • Discussion: Hands-on Solids and Volumes
Cross Sections • Video Lectures: Cross Sections, Other Shapes for Cross-Sections, Finding Dimensions of Solids
Arc Length • Video Lectures: Determine the Arc Length Formula, Arc Length Example y = f(x), Arc Length
Example x=f(y)
More Rectilinear Motion • Video Lectures: Total vs. Net, Velocity vs. Speed, Putting It All Together, Other Accumulated
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Changes
Other Applications of the Definite Integral • Video Lectures: Geometry, Surface Area, Applications from Physics, Nifty Application,
Connections
Unit Review Unit Test
Unit 3: Transcendental and Parametric Functions (~23 Days) This unit focuses on Topic II: Derivatives and Topic III: Integrals in the College Board’s Calculus BC topic outline. Students learn to calculate and use derivatives, antiderivatives, and integrals of exponential functions (such as y = 3x where the input variable is an exponent), logarithmic functions (the inverses of exponential functions), and trigonometric functions (such as y = secant x). In addition to the AB topics, BC students learn how to use L’Hôpital’s Rule and the methods of partial fractions and integration by parts. Also, students learn how to find improper integrals, and derivatives and integrals of parametric functions.
Introduction and Derivatives of Inverses • Video Lectures: Inverse Functions, Derivatives of Inverse Functions, The Graphical View, Inverse
Trig Functions
Inverse Trigonometric Functions • Video Lectures: Domain Restrictions, Derivatives of Arctan and Arccos, Complicated Examples,
Using Derivatives
Logarithmic and Exponential Review • Video Lectures: Exponential Growth and Decay Functions, Logarithms, Slope, Applications • Discussion: Challenges with Logarithms • Graphing Calculator: Derivatives of Exponential Functions
Transcendentals and 1/x • Graphing Calculator: Explore transcendentals and 1/x
Derivatives of Logarithms and Exponentials • Video Lectures: Definition, Laws, Logarithmic Differentiation, Exponential Function, Other Bases
L’Hôpital’s Rule • Video Lectures: Indeterminate Quotients and L’Hospital’s Rule, Indeterminate Products,
Indeterminate Differences, Indeterminate Powers
Analysis of Transcendental Curves • Video Lectures: Curve Analysis, Tangent and Normal Lines, Optimization, Rates of Change,
• Video Lectures: Partial Fractions I, Partial Fractions II
Integration by Parts
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• Video Lectures: Formula and Overall Approach, Repeated Use of Integration by Parts, Utilizing Constant Multiples of Original Integral, Definite Integrals with Integration by Parts
Improper Integrals • Video Lectures: Improper Integrals with Infinite Limits of Integration, Improper Integrals with
Infinite Discontinuities, Volume of an Infinite Solid
Applications of Transcendental Integrals • Video Lectures: Area and Averages, Volume, Motion, Accumulations
Derivatives of Parametric Functions • Video Lectures: Sketching Parametric Curves, Differentiating a Parametric Curve, Finding the
Slope of a Tangent Line to a Parametric Curve, Finding Horizontal and Vertical Tangents to a Parametric Curve
Integrating Parametric and Polar Functions • Video Lectures: Length of Parametric and Polar Curves, Area in Polar Coordinates, Surface Area
with a Parametric Curve
Unit Review Unit Test
Unit 4: Separable Differential Equations and Slope Fields (~11 Days)
This unit focuses on Topic II: Derivatives of the College Board’s Calculus BC topic outline, specifically, on Equations Involving Derivatives. Students investigate differential equations and solve the equations using a technique called “separating the variables.” In addition to the topics covered in AB, BC students also learn to use Euler’s method to estimate the solution of differential equations and use logistic equations to model growth.
Slope Fields • Video Lectures: What is a Differential Equation?, Slope Fields, Conic Sections, Solving Some
Simple Differential Equations, Separating Isn’t Always the Answer
Differential Equations as Models • Video Lectures: A Field Guide to Differential Equations, English to Math, Separating the
Euler’s Method • Video Lectures: Overall Approach, Approximating with Euler’s Method, Automating the Process
Exponential Growth and Decay • Video Lectures: A Family of Exponential Functions, Modeling Exponential Growth, Modeling
Exponential Decay, Modified Growth and Decay
Logistic Growth • Video Lectures: The Logistic Growth Equation, Modeling Logistic Growth
More Applications of Differential Equations [C4] • Video Lectures: Law of Cooling, Falling Bodies, Mixing Problems, Logistic Growth, Connections
Unit Review Unit Test
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Unit 5: Sequences and Series (~13 Days)
This unit focuses on Topic IV: Polynomial Approximations and Series of the College Board’s Calculus BC topic outline, specifically, on Series of Constants and Taylor Series.
Sequences • Video Lectures: Sequences as Functions, Limit Laws and Squeeze Theorem, Bounded Monotonic
Sequences
Series • Video Lectures: Series and Sigma Notation, Partial Sums and Convergence, Telescoping Series,
Geometric Series and Formula
Convergence Tests • Video Lectures: Integral Test, P-Series, Alternating Series Test
More Convergence Tests • Video Lectures: Direct Comparison Test, Limit Comparison Test
Radius of Convergence • Video Lectures: Absolute Convergence, Ratio Test, Test for Divergence, Interval of Convergence
Functions Defined by Power Series • Video Lectures: Building a Library of Functions, Differentiating to Obtain Series Representations,
Integrating to Obtain Series Representations
Taylor and Maclaurin Series • Video Lectures: Taylor Polynomials, Taylor Series, Maclaurin Series
Taylor’s Theorem and Lagrange Error • Video Lectures: Error with Series, Taylor’s Theorem, Lagrange Form
Unit Review Unit Test
Unit 6: AP Exam Prep (~6 Days)
Students review what they have learned and become more familiar with AP-type questions in preparation for the AP Exam. Students are also provided with access to previously released AP Exams for practice.
Exam Strategies • Video Lectures: T-Minus, One Day, Calculators, Multiple Choice, Free Response, Do’s and Don’ts
Review of Topics Practice Exams
• Video Lectures: How an AP Exam Score is Calculated, Rubrics, Strategies, Guesses About What Will Be on the Exam
Final Exam
Unit 7: Post-Exam Project (~15 Days)
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If there is sufficient time after the AP Exam, teachers may assign a special project. These projects provide an opportunity for students to apply Calculus tools and concepts in real-world problems.
Evidence of Required Scoring Components
Component 2a: The course provides opportunities for students to reason with definitions and theorems.
Component 2b: The course provides opportunities for students to connect concepts and processes.
Component 2c: The course provides opportunities for students to implement algebraic/computational processes.
Component 2d: The course provides opportunities for students to engage with graphical, numerical, analytical, and verbal representations and demonstrate connections among them.
Component 2e: The course provides opportunities for students to build notational fluency.
Component 2f: The course provides opportunities for students to communicate mathematical ideas in words, both orally and in writing.
Component 3b: Students have opportunities to use calculators to solve problems.
Component 3c: Students have opportunities to use a graphing calculator to explore and interpret calculus concepts.
Sample Activities
Semester A, Unit 1: The Basics
Explore Shifting and Distorting Graphs: Students use a graphing calculator to investigate families of functions (including trigonometric, power, and step functions) with the form f(x-a) and f(bx) to see how the parameters a and b affect the shape of the graph. [SC 2b, 2d, 2e, 3b, 3c]
Semester A, Unit 2: Limits and Continuity
Peer Interaction with Discussion Board: Students respond to a simplified predator-prey situation model, writing and talking about functions with limits that do not exist. [SC 2a, 2f]
Semester A, Unit 3: The Derivative
Explore: Compute the Derivative of a Function Numerically: Students use the nDeriv feature on their calculators to calculate derivatives numerically and explore the graphs of these derivatives. The problem set includes opportunities for students to demonstrate that they can use a graphing calculator to find a numerical derivative, as does the unit test. [SC 2c, 2d, 3b, 3c]
Learn, Try, Practice, and Explore the Derivative as a Function: Students watch a video lecture that covers the development of the derivative formula. Then students use the nDeriv feature on their calculators to graph the derivative of several functions and compare those graphs to hand-drawn graphs. In the problem set, students practice using the definition of derivative to fine derivatives. Students also practice working with prime and differential notation for derivatives. [SC 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e, 3b, 3c]
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Semester A, Unit 4: Rates of Change
Learn, Try, and Practice Extrema and Number Line Tests: Students connect concepts involving concavity and first and second derivatives to processes (including number line tests) for identifying maxima and minima. This is demonstrated through video lectures, practiced in problem sets, and assessed with a computer-scored quiz. [SC 2b, 2c, 2d]
Learn, Try, and Practice Rates and Derivatives: Students convert among verbal, graphical, and analytical representations of derivatives as rates. Concepts are demonstrated through video lectures, practiced in problem sets, and assessed with a computer-scored quiz. [SC 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e, 2f]
Explore Rectilinear Motion: Students gather real-world motion data and then use the data to explore the relationships between distance, velocity, and acceleration, and connect these to derivatives. [SC 2b, 2c, 2f, 3b]
Semester A, Unit 5: The Integral, Part 1
Explore Area Approximations: Students use the trapezoidal rule and Riemann sums, along with a calculator, to estimate areas under several curves. Concepts are demonstrated through video lectures, practiced in problem sets, and assessed with a computer-scored quiz. [SC 2b, 2c, 2d, 2f, 3b, 3c]
Explore the Definite Integral: Students use their calculators to calculate the sum of a sequence and apply this to calculating Riemann sums with smaller and smaller intervals. Students use the successive approximations to make conjectures about the effect of smaller intervals on the quality of the approximations. Later, students use the fnInt() function to calculate definite integrals. [SC 2b, 2c, 2d, 2f, 3b, 3c]
Semester B, Unit 1: The Integral, Part 2
Exploring the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus: Students use the fnInt() function on their calculators to discover the relationship between the definite integral and the antiderivative. They then make conjectures about how to calculate the definite integral of power functions. [SC 2a, 2b, 2d, 2e, 2f, 3c]
Learn, Try, and Practice Definite Integrals of Composite Functions: Students interpret interval and integral notation and use integral notation to show the steps to evaluate integrals. Concepts and skills are demonstrated through video lectures, practiced in problem sets, and assessed with a computer-scored quiz. [SC 2a, 2c, 2e]
Semester B, Unit 2: Applications of Integrals
Learn, Try, and Practice Volumes of Revolution: Students use disks and washers to set up integrals representing volumes of solids created by rotating a function about an axis. Then they use these integrals to calculate the volumes. Concepts and skills are demonstrated through video lectures, practiced in problem sets, and assessed with a computer-scored quiz. [SC 2b, 2d]
Peer Interaction: Volumes of Revolution: Students create a solid from cross sections made of cardboard and calculate the volume of the sum of the cross sections. Students then model the smoothed version of their solid and discuss how well the cross-sections estimate the volume of the smoothed version. [SC 2b, 2f]
Semester B, Unit 3: Transcendental and Parametric Functions
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Learn, Try, and Practice Partial Fractions: Students use the method of partial fractions to decompose and find integrals of rational functions. Concepts and skills are demonstrated through video lectures, practiced in problem sets, and assessed with a computer-scored quiz. [SC 2a, 2b, 2c, 3b]
Semester B, Unit 4: Simple ODEs
Learn, Try, and Practice Euler’s Method: Students use Euler’s method with various step sizes to approximate the solutions of various differential equations. Students also use concavity to determine whether an approximation yields an over- or under-estimate. Concepts and skills are demonstrated through video lectures, practiced in problem sets, and assessed with a computer-scored quiz. [SC 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e, 2f, 3b, 3c]
Semester B, Unit 5: Sequences and Series
Learn, Try, and Practice Radius of Convergence: For various power series, students determine the center of the series and determine its radius or interval of convergence. Students then use properties of convergence to determine whether certain power series converge or not for given parameter values. Concepts and skills are demonstrated through video lectures, practiced in problem sets, and assessed with a computer-scored quiz. [SC 2a, 2b, 2c]
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Textbook Resources Semester A If textbooks are updated with new editions, page number references may change.
Unit 1: The Basics
Topic Stewart text Finney text Larson text
Pre-Calculus Review
Practice: Diagnostic Tests pp. xxiv–xxv, #1–10 all; p. xxvi, #1–5 all; p. xxvii, #1–7 all; p. xxviii, #1–9 all
Practice: pp. 56–57, #1–43 odd, 53–61 odd
Practice: Review Exercises pp. 37–38, #1–49 odd; Problem Solving pp. 39–40, #1–15 odd
Introduction to Calculus
Read: pp. 1–8
Practice: p. 8, #1–9 all
Read: Calculus at Work on pp.181, 319, 376, 430, 529
Read: pp. 41–46
Practice: p. 47, #1–11 all
Function Basics
Read: pp. 10–15
Practice: pp.19–22, #1–13 all, 23, 31–45 odd, 63
Read: pp. 12–15, Examples 1–3
Practice: p. 19, #1–19 odd, 35–39 odd
Read: pp. 19–22
Practice: pp. 27–28, #1–8 all, 13–43 odd
Combining Functions
Read: pp. 39–40
Practice: p. 43, #29–30 all
Practice: p. 21, #71; p. 28, #47
Read: pp. 24–25
Practice: pp. 27–30, #9–12 all, 97; p. 38, #45
Composite and Inverse Functions
Read: pp. 40–41; pp.384–387
Practice: p. 43, #31–51 odd; p. 390, #1–31 odd
Read: pp. 17–18, Examples 7–8; pp. 37–40, Examples 1–2
Practice: p. 20, #51–53 all; p. 44, # 1–23 odd
Read: p. 25; pp. 343–347
Practice: p. 28, #59–65 all; p. 349, #1–35 odd
Graphical Symmetry
Read: pp. 17–19
Practice: pp. 22–23, #69–79 odd
Read: pp. 15–16, Example 4
Practice: p. 19, #21–30 all
Read: pp. 2–6; p. 26
Practice: p. 8, #29–57 odd; p. 29, #69–75 all
Patterns in Graphs
Read: pp. 36–39
Practice: p. 42, #1–23 odd
Read: p. 17, Example 7
Practice: p. 20, #49–50 all
Read: p. 23
Practice: p. 28, #49–57 all
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Unit 2: Limits and Continuity
Topic Stewart text Finney text Larson text
Introduction
Read: pp. 50–52
Practice: pp. 59–60, #1–12 all
Read: pp. 59–60, Examples 1–2
Practice: p. 66, #1–4
Read: pp. 48–49
Practice: pp. 54–55, #2–22 even
Finding Limits
Analytically
Read: pp. 62–67
Practice: pp. 69–71, #1–9 all, 11–33 odd, 47; Challenge: 58
Read: pp. 61–63, Examples 3–5
Practice: pp. 66–67, #5–28 all; Challenge: 50–51
Read: pp. 59–64
Practice: pp. 67–68, #1–37 odd, 42–52 even, 65–69 odd
Asymptotes as Limits
Read: pp. 56–58; pp. 223–231
Practice: p. 61, #29–37 all; pp.234–235, #1–6 all, 7–29 odd, 33–37 odd
Read: pp. 70–73, Examples 1–5
Practice: p. 76, #1–7 odd, 13–33 odd
Read: pp. 83–87; pp. 198–200
Practice: pp. 88–89, #1–12 all, 13–23 odd, 34–42 even; Challenge: 69; p. 205, #1–12 all
Relative Magnitudes
for Limits
Practice: pp. 234–235, #10, 12, 26, 34, 36
Read: pp. 73–75, Examples 6–8
Practice: p. 76, #35–40 all, 39–51 odd
Read: p. 201
Practice: p. 205, #13–18 all
When Limits Do and Don’t Exist
Read: pp. 53–56
Practice: pp. 60–61, #13–26 all; Challenge: 43
Read: pp. 63–64, Examples 6–8
Practice: pp. 66–68, #29–37 odd, 39–44 all; Challenge: 58
Read: pp. 50–51
Practice: pp. 55–56, #23–32 all; Challenge: 33
Continuity
Read: pp. 81–83
Practice: pp. 90, #1–9 odd, 17–23 odd
Read: pp. 78–82
Practice: pp. 84–85, #1–16 all, 19–31 odd
Read: pp. 70–73
Practice: pp. 78–81, #1–6 all, 7–13 odd, 17–23 odd, 27–43 odd, 52; Challenge: 98
Intermediate and Extreme Value Theorems
Read: pp. 89–90; pp. 198–200
Practice: p. 92, #51–58 all; pp. 204–205, #1–10 all, 11–27 odd
Read: p. 83; pp. 187–189
Practice: p. 85, #45, 46, 51; pp. 193–194, #1–10 all
Read: pp. 77–78; p. 164
Practice: pp. 80–81, #83–94 all; p. 164, #a, b
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Unit 3: The Derivative
Topic Stewart text Finney text Larson text
Introduction:
Slope and Change
Read: pp. 104–106
Practice: pp. 110–111, #1–15 odd, 34–38 even, 42, 44
Read: pp. 87–88
Practice: p. 92, #1–6 all, 8; Challenge: 33
Read: pp. 96–97
Practice: p. 103, #1–4 all
Derivative at a Point
Read: pp. 107–110
Practice: pp. 111–112, #17–31 odd, 47, 51
Read: pp. 88–91
Practice: pp. 92–93, #7–15 odd, 19, 25, 27
Read: pp. 98–99
Practice: p. 104, #5–10 all
The Derivative
Read: pp. 114–120
Practice: pp. 122–124, #1–21 odd, 25–27 odd, 32–34 even
Read: pp. 99–104
Practice: pp. 105–107, #1–11 odd, 21, 24, 29
Read: pp. 99–103
Practice: pp. 104–105, #11–21 odd, 27, 37, 57; Challenge: 64
Power Rule
Read: pp. 126–130, 133–134; pp. 140–143
Practice: pp. 136–138, #1–5 odd, 9–13 odd, 21, 47–49 odd, 66; Challenge: 76-77; pp. 146, # 1–2, 26
Read: pp. 116–119, 121–122; pp. 141–142; pp. 161–162
Practice: pp. 124–125, #1–11 odd, 25, 30, 32; Challenge: 49; p. 146, #1, 3; p. 162, #31–34 all
Read: pp. 107–114
Practice: pp. 115–117, #1–2, 4–30 even, 31, 38, 39–45 odd, 55, 59, 63; Challenge: 87–92 all
Practice: pp. 124–125, #13–23 odd, 27, 31, 38, 44; Challenge: 50; pp. 146, #5–9 odd, 27
Read: pp. 111–112; pp. 119–124
Practice: p. 115, #40–54 even; p. 126, #2–18 even, 25–37 odd, 40–54 even
Graphs of Functions
and Derivatives
Read: pp. 114–115
Practice: pp. 122–124, #2–14 even
Read: pp. 101–102
Practice: p. 105, #13–16 all, 22, 24, 26–27
Practice: pp. 104–105, #39–42 all, 45–52 all
Continuity and Differentiability
Read: pp. 114–120
Practice: pp. 124–125, #35–40 all, 49–53 all
Read: pp. 109–113
Practice: p. 114, #1–16 all, 35; p. 147, #37
Read: pp. 101–103
Practice: p. 106, #89–98 all, 102–104 all
Rolle’s and Mean Value Theorems
Read: pp. 208–212
Practice: pp. 212–213, #1–21 odd
Read: pp. 196–198
Practice: pp. 202–203, #1–5 all, 7–13 all; Challenge: 46
Read: pp. 172–175
Practice: pp. 176–177, #1–10 all, 12–30 every third problem, 31–35 all, 37, 41, 47, 49, 50; Challenge: 60
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Unit 3: The Derivative (continued)
Topic Stewart text Finney text Larson text
Higher-Order Derivatives
Read: pp. 120–122
Practice: p. 125, #45-48 all
Read: pp. 122–123
Practice: pp. 124–125, #33–36 all, 47
Read: p. 125
Practice: pp. 128–129, #93–107 odd, 111–116 all, 119, 135–136
Concavity
Read: pp. 213–220
Practice: pp. 220–221, #1–8 all, 9–13 odd
Read: pp. 207–209
Practice: p. 215, #7–20 all
Read: pp. 190–194
Practice: p. 195, #5–11 odd, 17–21 odd, 27, 31
Identifying Functions
and Derivatives
Read: pp. 114–122
Practice: p. 125, #41–44 all; p. 137, #59–64 all
Practice: pp. 215–217, #30, 49–50
Practice: p. 138, #101–104 all; p. 187, #59–70 all; p. 196, #61–64 all
Chain Rule
Read: pp. 148–153
Practice: pp. 154–155, #1–6 all, 9–45 every third problem, 47, 57, 63; Challenge: 65
Read: pp. 148–152
Practice: pp. 153–154, #1–8 all, 9–39 every third problem, 63; Challenge: 56
Read: pp. 130–136
Practice: pp. 137–139, #1–6 all, 9–36 every third problem, 45–80 every fifth problem, 109; Challenge: 112
Implicit Differentiation
Read: pp. 157–161
Practice: pp. 161–163, #3–39 every third problem; Challenge: 57
Read: pp. 157–160
Practice: pp.162–163, #1–43 odd; Challenge: 54
Read: pp. 141–145
Practice: pp. 146–147, #1–15 odd, 18–27 every third problem, 33, 36, 45, 48, 53
Unit 4: Rates of Change
Topic Stewart text Finney text Larson text
Introduction Practice: p. 220, #5–6 Practice: p. 215, #21–24 all Practice: p. 186, #2–8 even; p. 195, #2–4 even
Extrema
Read: pp. 198–204; pp. 213–220
Practice: pp. 204–205, #1–6 all, 7, 9, 12–60 every fourth problem; pp. 221–222, #10–18 even, 21–35 odd; Challenge: 49
Read: pp. 187–192; pp. 198–201; pp. 205–214
Practice: pp. 193–194, #1–10 all, 12–28 even, 37–41 odd; pp. 202–203, #15–28 all; p. 215, #1–6 all, 25–29 odd, 34–42 even
Read: pp. 164–168; pp. 179–185; pp. 190–194
Practice: pp. 169–170, #3–45 every third problem, 55–59 odd; pp. 186–187, #1–7 odd, 12–48 every fourth problem; pp. 195–197, #1–3 odd, 8–52 every fourth problem; Challenge: 82
Practice: p. 428, #47–48, 55–60 all; p. 435, #53–54, 56, 67–75 all; p. 445, #43; Challenge: 62
Read: pp. 87–91
Practice: p. 92, #3–4; p. 96, #37–38; pp. 178– 179, #29–32 all, 49–53 all; p. 194, #11–14 all; pp. 215–216, #4, 12–13, 37–38; p. 228, #26; Challenge: 28
Practice: pp. 331–333, #43–46 all, 77–81 odd, 87–88, 91–95 odd, 115; Challenge: 119; pp. 358– 360, #37, 62–68 even, 71, 79–85 odd; Challenge: 90, 93; pp. 368–369, #63, 66, 71, 73
Integrating Transcendental
Functions
Read: pp. 426–427; p. 434; p. 440, Example 3
Practice: p. 429, #65–74 all; p. 436, #81–92 all; p. 445, #45–50 all; p. 461, #60–70 all
Practice: p.291, #21, 29; p. 303, #53; p. 312, #4; pp. 337–338, #9–10, 29, 33, 39–45 odd
Read: pp. 334–339; pp. 356–357; p. 365, Example 4
Practice: pp. 340–341, #3–24 every third problem, 27–39 odd, 54–60 even; p. 360, #99–115 odd; p. 369, #75–85 odd
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Unit 3: Inverse and Transcendental Functions (continued)
Topic Stewart text Finney text Larson text
BC—Partial Fractions
Read: pp. 508–516
Practice: pp. 516–517, #1–6 all, 7–29 odd, 39–40; Challenge 53
Read: pp. 362–364
Practice: pp. 369–371, #1–18 all, 47
Read: pp. 554–560
Practice: pp. 561–562, #1–6 all, 7–21 odd, 25, 29; Challenge: 51
BC—Integration by Parts
Read: pp. 488–492
Practice: pp. 492–493, #2–3, 6–8 all, 13, 23, 28, 37, 39, 45–47 all
Practice: pp. 467–468, #2–4 all, 5–15 odd, 25, 27, 32–38 even
Read: pp. 580–586
Practice: pp. 587–588, #1–3 all, 6–12 all, 19, 21, 35–39 odd, 43, 49, 55–56
Applications of Transcendental Integrals
Practice: p. 429, #76–79 all; p. 436, #93–96 all, 99–100; p. 445, #51–52
Read: pp. 350–356; pp. 379–385
Practice: pp. 357–358, #15–28 all; p. 386, #7, 21; p. 397, #47, 54–55; p. 409, #65, 68; p. 416, #10; p. 425, #4
Read: pp. 362, 366–367, Examples 1, 6–7
Practice: pp. 341–342, #72, 74, 77, 83, 99; p. 361, #140, 142; pp. 369–371, #87, 95–97 all, 101, 106–107; Challenge: 111; pp. 454–455, #35, 51–52; p. 466, #25, 27–28, 35–38 all, 49; pp. 474–475, #13, 28, 36; pp. 485–486, #11–14 all, 23–24, 32
BC—Derivatives of Parametric Functions
Read: pp. 660–665; pp. 669–671
Practice: pp. 665–666, #3–30 every third problem; p. 675, #1–5 odd, 9–11 odd, 15–17 odd, 24, 29
Read: p. 151; pp. 531–532
Practice: pp. 153–154, #41–50 all; p. 535, #1–15 odd, 23, 25
Read: pp. 711–716; pp. 721–723
Practice: p. 718, #1, 3–42 every third problem; p. 727, #1–3 all, 6–39 every third problem
BC—Integrating Parametric and Polar
Functions
Read: pp. 669–674; pp. 689–692
Practice: pp. 675–676, #1–19 odd, 21–33 every third problem, 37–45 odd, 51, 57–63 odd; pp. 692–693, #1–21 odd, 24–48 every third problem; Challenge: 44
Read: pp. 531–535; pp. 552–554
Practice: pp. 535–536, #7–25 odd, 28–34 even; Challenge: 36; p. 558, #39–42 all, 45–57 every third problem; Challenge: 60a
Read: pp. 721–726; pp. 741–746
Practice: pp. 727–729, #1–17 odd, 19, 23, 27, 32–60 every fourth problem, 67–75 odd; Challenge: 61; pp. 747– 748, #1–15 odd, 20–48 every fourth problem, 55–61 odd, 67, 69, 77; Challenge: 79
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Unit 4: Simple ODEs
Topic Stewart text Finney text Larson text
Introduction and Slope
Fields
Read: pp. 604–608; pp. 609–613
Practice: pp. 608–609, #1–8 all, 11–13 all; pp. 616–617, #1–14 all, 18
Read: pp. 321–325
Practice: pp. 327–329, #1–10 all, 11–17 odd, 25–28 all, 29, 33, 35–40 all, 49–52 all
Read: pp. 406–409
Practice: pp. 411–412, #3–27 every third problem, 30, 32, 42–51 every third problem, 53–61 all, 63
Differential Equations
as Models
Read: pp. 618–621
Practice: p. 624, #1–18 all, 19–23 odd
Read: p. 350
Practice: p. 357, #1–14 all
Read: p. 415; pp. 423–424
Practice: p. 420, #1–23 odd; p. 431, #3–27 every third problem
BC—Euler’s Method
Read: pp. 613–615
Practice: p. 617, #19–24 all
Read: pp. 325–327
Practice: pp. 328–329, #41–48 all, 53–54
Read: p. 410
Practice: p. 413, #73–82 all
Exponential Growth
and Decay
Read: pp. 446–449; pp. 450–451
Practice: p. 452, #1–5 all, 8–11 all; p. 453, #18–20 all
Read: pp. 351–354
Practice: pp. 357–359, #15–18 all, 19–27 odd; Challenge: 36
Read: pp. 416–419
Practice: pp. 420–422, #25–55 odd, 64, 71
BC—Logistic Growth
Read: pp. 629–636
Practice: pp. 637–639, #1–9 odd, 15, 17; Challenge: 13
Read: pp. 362–368
Practice: pp. 369–370, #23–35 odd; Challenge: 38
Read: pp. 429–430
Practice: pp. 432–433, #71–74 all, 75–83 odd
More Applications of Differential Equations
Read: pp. 449–450; pp. 622–627
Practice: pp. 452–453, #13–16 all; pp. 625–626, #43–48 all
Read: pp. 354–356
Practice: pp. 358–359, #30–33 all
Read: p. 419; pp. 434–437
Practice: p. 422, #73–74; pp. 440–441, #3–33 every third problem, 37–38
Unit 5: Sequences and Series
Topic Stewart text Finney text Larson text
BC—Sequences
Read: pp. 714–723
Practice: pp. 724–725, #1–2, 3–81 every third problem
Read: pp. 435–440
Practice: pp. 441–442, #1–43 odd, 45–48 all
Read: pp. 596–603
Practice: pp. 604–606, #1–13 odd, 15–22 all, 25–115 every fifth problem
BC—Series
Read: pp. 727–734
Practice: pp. 735–736, #1–13 odd, 15–63 every third problem, 69
Read: pp. 473–476
Practice: p. 481, #1–25 odd
Read: pp. 608–613
Practice: pp. 614–616, #1–17 odd, 19–24 all, 25–105 every fifth problem
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Unit 5: Sequences and Series (continued)
Topic Stewart text Finney text Larson text
BC—Convergence Tests
Read: pp. 738–744; pp. 746–750;
Practice: pp. 744–745, #3–27 every third problem, 29, 31, 36; p. 750, #1–35 odd
Read: pp. 504–506; pp. 513–516
Practice: p. 511, #3–6 all; p. 523, #1–17 all
Read: pp. 619–622; pp. 626–629
Practice: pp. 622–624, #5–95 every fifth problem; pp. 630–631, #1, 3–48 every third problem
BC—More Convergence Tests
Read: pp. 746-750; pp. 751-755; 756-761; pp. 763-764
Practice: p. 750, #1-2, 3-30 every third; p. 755, #1-29 odd, 32, 34; pp.761–762, #1–35 odd; pp. 764-765, #3–36 every third problem
Read: pp. 506-508; pp. 515-519, 521
Practice: p. 511, #29–43 all; p. 523, #3–32 all
Read: pp. 628–629; pp. 633-638; pp. 641-646
Practice: pp. 630-631, #15–28 all, 37; pp. 638– 639, #7-67 every third problem; pp. 647–649, #1, 3, 5–10 all, 15-105 every fifth problem
BC—Radius of Convergence
Read: pp. 767–769
Practice: pp. 769–770, #1–2, 3–33 odd
Read: pp. 503–510
Practice: p. 511, #1–2, 3–51 every third problem
Read: pp. 661–667
Practice: pp. 668–669, #5–9 odd, 12–45 every third problem, 49–52 all, 65
BC—Functions Defined by Power Series
Read: pp. 765–767, Examples 1–3; pp. 770–775
Practice: pp. 775–776, #1–2, 3–31 odd, 34
Read: pp. 476–480
Practice: pp. 481–483, #27–35 all, 55–63 odd, 64
Read: pp. 661–662, Example 1; pp. 671–675
Practice: p. 668, #1–4 all; pp. 676–677, #1–23 odd, 29, 31–34 all 35, 39, 45
BC—Taylor and Maclaurin
Series
Read: pp. 777–788
Practice: pp. 789–790, #1–4 all, 3–69 every third problem
Read: pp. 484–491
Practice: p. 492, #1–25 odd
Read: pp. 650–655; pp. 678–686
Practice: pp. 658–659, #1–4 all, 5–29 odd, 33,37,41; pp. 687–688, #4–48 every fourth problem, 53–56 all, 57–75 every third problem
BC—Taylor’s Theorem
and Lagrange Error
Read: pp. 792–795
Practice: pp. 798–799, #1–9 odd, 13–29 odd
Read: pp. 495–499
Practice: pp. 500–501, #1–10 all, 13–23 odd, 27, 29, 34