This is a re-post and update of the third in a series of posts from last year. It contains links to posts on this blog about the differentiation of composite, implicit, and inverse functions for your reference in planning. Other updated post on the 2019 CED will come throughout the year, hopefully, a few weeks…
This is a re-post and update of the second in a series of posts from last year. It contains links to posts on this blog about the definition of the derivative for your reference in planning. Other updated post on the 2019 CED will come throughout the year, hopefully, a few weeks before you get…
This is a re-post and update of the first in a series of posts from last year. It contains links to posts on this blog about the topics of limits and continuity for your reference in planning. Other updated post on the 2019 CED will come throughout the year, hopefully, a few weeks before you…
In one of my math classes – it may have been calculus – many decades ago, we started by determining what kind of functions we were going to study. A good part of the answer was continuous functions. Looking closely, you will find that almost all the theorems in beginning calculus require that the function…
Summertime and the living is easy, or so they sing. The school year is over, quite a year as it turned out. Looking ahead I do not plan on a lot of posts for the blog. I am going to do a little more reorganization to make things easier to find. In August I will…
While calculus teachers are concerned with the new format of this year’s AP Calculus exams, there is other testing that is important now: tests for disease. Today’s post is not about calculus; mathematically, it is about conditional probability. In the big picture, it is about tests for disease and their accuracy. . No test for…
Here is the latest information on the 2020 AP Calculus Exams as of April 3, 2020. Updated 4/29/2020 Update: A message from the AP Program 4/28/2020 Subject: How to Prepare Your Students for the 2020 AP Exams Dear Colleagues, Additional information is now available to help guide you and your students through the exam day experience.…
