AP Calculus AB

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Lesson Plans for the Week of November 27, 2023

Three more weeks before Christmas Break! Stay strong! Stay focused!

Monday

Related Rates

Assign PS#5 (last one before Christmas Break)

Wksht: HW #29 & 30

Tuesday

Related Rates

Wednesday

Local Linearization: Wksht: topic 4.6

Thursday

workday

Wksht: topic 4.6

Wksht: HW #29 & 30

Friday

Problem Session #5 and ???

MONDAY: T6 part 2 (related rates only)

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Lesson Plans for the Week of November 13, 2023

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Canned Food Drive ends on November 29. Get your cans in for your homework pass.

Monday

PVA Vocabulary; #17 Straight Line Motion wksht

Tuesday

PSQ #4

Intro to Related Rates

Wednesday

Finish intro

Circuit: identify the formula and find the derivative with respect to time;
Thursday

Part 1 of T6

(PVA and 4.1: meaning of derivatives in context)

Friday

Campus wide college career day!

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Lesson Plans for the Week of November 6, 2023

 

Monday

3.6 Higher Order Derivatives

(on assigned myap)

Tuesday

T5

 
Wednesday

Finding Values of Derivatives w/Calculator; interpreting the meaning of derivatives

4.1 wksht (from Avon)

Thursday

#17 Straight Line Motion (PVA)

#17 Straight Line Motion HW

Friday *five will be at college day

PVA (notes: PVA vocabulary)

Circuit

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Lesson Plans for the Week of October 30, 2023

 

Monday

Finish derivatives of Inverse Trig functions

Circuit and myap wksht (1-6); due on Wednesday

Watch before Wednesday; video on google classroom

Tuesday

Calc Medic Activity

Wednesday

Implicit Differentiation

p. 145 (1-15odd, 25, 27, 47, 49, 57)

Thursday

More on Implicit Differentiation

p. 145 (8-16e, 24, 28, 50)

p. 326 (73, 75); p. 352 (63, 65)

Friday

3.5 Selecting Procedures for Calculating Derivatives

wksht: Assigned on myap

Wksht: implicit differentiation (due Tues)

T5 on Tuesday, Nov 7

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Lesson Plans for the Week of October 23, 2023

 

Monday

 “Hop out of the Limit”

(finding a hidden derivative in a limit)

Videos assigned last Friday on myap to watch by class today.

Tuesday

T 4.5

Wednesday

Early-release

Differentiating Inverse Functions

Wksht: #25

Wksht: “inverses #1” (11-20)

Thursday

Wksht 122

and

Derivatives of Inverse Functions wksht

Friday

PSQ #2;

Derivatives of Inverse Trig Functions

(we will finish on Monday if we run out of time today)

PS#3 assigned; due on 11/3 (Friday)

Circuit and assigned on myap  “derivatives of inverse trig functions “(1-6)

These assignments are not due until Tuesday next week

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Lesson Plans for the Week of October 16, 2023

T4.5 Oct 25?? That’s a half-day so we will see what the schedule will be.

Monday

Student holiday

Tuesday

More practice with e

p. 352 (33-51 odd, 57, 61)

Wednesday

More practice with LN

p. 325 (41-61 odd, 65, 70)

Thursday

Deriviatives with Bases other than e

p. 362-363 (37-65odd)

Friday

PS#1 Quiz;      Exponential and Log Deriv wksht

PS#2 assigned

There are two videos assigned on myap for you to watch BEFORE class on Monday.

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Lesson Plans for the Week of October 9, 2023

9WT on Tuesday

Monday

Chain Rule (day two)

p. 126 (73-76)

and all the circuits: PR,QR,CR; tables and graphs Version A; and Chain Rule; wksht 4

Tuesday

9WT

First Problem Session assigned (due on 10/17)
Wednesday

workday

Thursday

T4

Friday

Derivatives of LN, Log, and e

Wksht #23 HW

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Lesson Plans for the Week of October 2, 2023

 

Monday

Product Rule

Video 2.8 DV1: assigned on myap

Wksht (HPC D7 prt 1: the product rule)

Tuesday

Quotient Rule

Video 2.9 DV1 and DV2: assigned on myap

p. 125 (13, 15, 17, 25, 29, 35, 63)

wksht: (HPC D7 prt2: the quotient rule)

Wednesday

Practicing Derivative Rules

article to read: Why Definitions?

Kuta Wksht (1-20)

Thursday

Higher Order Derivatives and Derivatives of Trig Functions (Cole’s world video)

p. 125 (39-53 odd, 91, 95, 97)

Friday

Chain Rule

p. 136 (7-31 odd, 43-79 eoo, 85, 89)

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Lesson Plans for the Week of September 25, 2023

Friday is a holiday!!

Monday

Left/Right Derivatives

wksht

Tuesday

T3

 
Wednesday

Derivative Rules: Power Rule

Wksht: day #14; p. 114 (3-65 odd, 93, 95)
Thursday

Finish the derivative rules

Friday

School Holiday!

 
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Lesson Plans for the Week of September 18, 2023

Don’t forget the two “quizzes” on myap.collegeboard. Due on 9/28.

Monday

Finish notes from Friday

Desmos card sort (function and derivative): access on google classroom
Tuesday

The Difference Quotient

Explanation of why d/dx[e^x}=e^x

proof of d/dx[e^x]=e^x using the definition of the derivative

Circuit: Difference Quotient (you’re not finding the limit, just the difference quotient without the limit)

Wednesday

finish notes

Wksht: HW day 12
Thursday Estimate the Derivative at a Point (alternate method)

Kuta wksht “derivative at a point” (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11)

Friday

Advanced Calculator Techniques

AROC and IROC using the definition of a limit

Article to read: Why Radians?

Wksht: “advanced calculator techniques”

Circuit: AROC and IROC

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