Advanced Placement Calculus AB Honors
This course is open to those mathematically competent college bound students who have successfully completed all of the necessary college prep mathematics courses, including Pre-Calculus with at least a B average and with the recommendation of their current mathematics teacher.
The Advanced Placement Calculus AB course consists of a full year of work in calculus and related topics comparable to at least the first semester of college calculus. The course is designed to prepare the mathematically or scientifically-oriented student for college level mathematics by presenting a discussion of Elementary Function Theory, Differential Calculus and Integral Calculus.
The students may or may not take the AP exam in May. A satisfactory grade on this exam may allow a college to grant credit, waive a requirement, or exempt a student from the course in college.
Minimal proficiencies which must be mastered for the student to receive 7.5 credits for this course are:
- Analyzing and graphing equations of functions.
- Determining limits of functions.
- Differentiating algebraic and transcendental functions.
- Applying differentiation to problems of extreme and rates.
- Determining indefinite and definite integrals.
- Applying integration to problems of area, volume, and length.
Mr. Chew