Reviewing for the AP Calculus Exams & Writing on the AP Calculus Exams– Ideas for reviewing for the exams, how to use AP questions through the year, scoring and scaling your exams, suggestions for planning your review, and resources. There will be a detailed discussion of the ten “type” questions of the free-response section, The presentation will include a discussion of how to answer the writing questions (justify your answer, explain your reasoning, etc.). (AB and BC). The videos are from a presentation for the teachers of  Mass Insight, November 2020. 

PowerPoint Slides: 

Reviewing CB Online Review Talk Mass Insight

Writing Writing on the AP Calculus Exams 2017

Videos of presentations

Reviewing for the AP Exams

Writing on the AP Exams

Blog Posts on these topics

• 2019 CED Mathematical Practices All; and in relation to writing 2.B, 3.B, 3.C, 3.D, 3.E, 3.F, 4.A, 4.B, 4.C
• On grading – Adapting the College Board method to your class
• On Scaling – the Desmos link for the Kennedy Curve, and Percentages Don’t Make the Grade
• Scoring Different Versions of the Same Test
• Practice Exams – A Modest Proposal – “cheating” on the Practice Exams
• Using Practice Exam
• Type Analysis – an index to FR and MC questions
• The Ten Type Questions – 2020 revisions
  • Rate and Accumulation (Type 1)
  • Linear Motion (Type 2)
  • Graph Analysis Questions (Type 3)
  • Area and Volume Problems (Type 4)
  • Riemann Sum & Table Problems (Type 5)
  • Differential Equations (Type 6)
  • Other Problems (Type 7) – Implicit differentiation, Related Rate, etc.
  • Parametric and Vector Equations (Type 8)
  • Polar Equation Questions (Type 9)
• The Writing Questions on the AP Exams

 

 

 

 

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