AP CALCULUS AB Summer 2025
Eliel Gonzalez, Instructor
- Introductions and Welcome
- Mathematical Practices in AP Calc AB
- Course at Glance (8 major units)
- Course Exam Description: Units at Glance, Unit Guides (topics, pacing, skills, big ideas) and Learning Objectives
- Pre-Calculus, Access, Placement, Graphing Calculators
- AB EXAM Overview: format, scoring, sample exams
- Motivation in AP Calc: Building A Successful AP Calculus Program – Expectations
- AP Calculus Textbooks/AP Central/Resources
- Assessing Student Learning in Calc AP
Content, Planning, and Teaching/Learning and Instructional Strategies:
- “Particle” Problems/Motion (units 4 and 8)
- Related Rates and Implicit Differentiation (units 3 and 4)
- Resource Materials for Teaching AP Calculus
- Slope Field and Differential Equations Clinic (unit 7)
- Teaching Area and Volume (unit 8)
- Teaching the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (unit 6)
- Riemann Sums (unit 6)
- Average Rate vs. Average Value (units 1 and 8)
- L’Hopital’s Rule (unit 4)
- Continuity and Differentiability (units 1 and 2)
- MVT, IVT, EVT (units 1, 5)
- Relative Extrema, Absolute Extrema (unit 5)
- Global Review for AP Exam (Free Response/Mult Choice)
- AP Exam 2025/Free Response/Other Free Response
- AP Community: Online Formative Assessments/Personal Progress Checks/AP Classroom/Scoring FRQ/Instructional Planning Reports
- Other Topics
eliel_gonzalez@comcast.net
