“A particle (or car, or bicycle) moves on a number line ….” These questions may give the position equation, the velocity equation or the acceleration equation of something that is moving, along with an initial condition. The questions ask for information about motion of the particle: its direction, when it changes direction, its maximum position…
The Free-response Questions The free-response questions fall into 10 general categories or types. The multiple-choice questions fall largely into the same categories plus some straight-forward questions asking students to find limits, derivatives, and integrals. Often two or more type are combined into one question. The types are the following. Rate and Accumulation Linear motion Graph Analysis…
The goals of the AP Calculus program state that, “Students should be able to communicate mathematics and explain solutions to problems both verbally and in well written sentences.” For obvious reasons the verbal part cannot be tested on the exams; it is expected that you will do that in your class. The exams do require…
The multiple-choice exams from 2003, 2008 and 2012 and all the free-response questions and solutions from past years are available online. The students can easily find them. Starting in 2012 the College Board provided full actual AP Calculus exams, AB and BC, for teachers who had an audit on file to use with their students…
Here are several resources that will help you get started with your review “The AP Calculus Exam: How, not only to Survive, but to Prevail…” – Advice for students on the format of the exam and do’s and don’ts for the exam. Print this and share it with your students. Released free-response questions from the College Board.…
Don’t panic! It is not time to start reviewing. I try to keep these posts ahead of the typical AP Calculus timeline so you can have time to think them over and include what you want to use from them (if anything). Over the next 6 weeks I will post several times each week. The…
One of the great things – at least I like it – about Taylor series is that they are unique. There is only one Taylor series for any function centered at a given point, What that means is that any way you get it, it’s right. Faced with writing the power series for, say, ,…
