Resources for Reviewing

This is a list of links to some resources for reviewing. How, Not Only to Survive, but to Prevail… –  Notes and advice for your students. You may copy and duplicate this for your class. Calculator Use on the AP Exams – hints and instruction. Ted Gott’s Free-response Index – an excel spreadsheet searchable by…

AP Exam Review

It will soon be time to start reviewing for the AP Calculus Exams. So, it’s time to start planning your review. For the next weeks through the beginning of April I will be posting notes for reviewing. There are not new; versions have been posted for the last few years and these are only slightly…

A Few More Things

The AP Calculus AB and BC exams are scheduled for Tuesday May 15, 2018 at 08:00 local time. That’s about 5 weeks away. I’ve posted all my review notes, finishing well ahead of time so, if you find something useful in them, you’ll have time to incorporate it into your review. I hope you find them…

Exams or Vacation?

What are you looking forward to most: the exam or April vacation? As I’ve mentioned before, I try to keep my posts a little ahead of where I assume you are. With the exams in less than a month away, this means I’m about done for this year. I’m now going to take some time…

NCTM Calculus Panel Notes

This past week I attended the NCTM Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. For many years now, the sessions included a panel discussion on AP Calculus. This year Stephen Davis, chief reader for AP Calculus, was the principal speaker. I would like to share a few of his comments and insights some of which may…

Domain of a Differential Equation

  A reader recently asked me to do a post answering some questions about differential equations: The 2016 AP Calculus course description now includes a new statement about domain restrictions for the solutions of differential equations. Specifically, EK 3.5A3 states “Solutions to differential equations may be subject to domain restrictions.” Could you write a blog…