AP Calculus AB

Keep Calm and Do More Calculus!

Mrs. Cook’s AP Calculus AB!

 
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Lesson Plans for the Week of November 3, 2025

T5 on 11/8

M

STUDENT HOLIDAY

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More on Implicit Differentiation

assign PS #2 (due on 11/11)

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

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

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3.5 Selecting Procedures for Calculating Derivatives

Assignment on myap (this will close on 11/10)

AND

Wkshts: “more on derivatives” with HW #28 (due on Friday)

TH

3.6 Higher Order Derivatives

Assignment on myap (this will close on 11/10)

F

Finding Values of Derivatives w/Calc; Interpreting the Meaning of Derivatives (not on T5)

Wksht (due on Tuesday)

M

T5

PS #2 Quiz Tuesday

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Lesson Plans for the Week of October 27, 2025

Band Contest 10/28 Good luck!!

M

Differentiating Inverse Functions

Wksht #25

Wksht: 5.3

Wksht: 122

Wksht: “derivs of inv fxns”

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Workday

(band contest)

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TH

Derivatives of Inverse Trig Functions

Trick to Memorize Inverse Trig Deriv

Circuit

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Implicit Differentiation

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

 

 

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Lesson Plans for the Week of October 20, 2025

Band out 10/21

T4.5 10/24

M

Derivatives with Bases other than e, and log

p. 362-363 (37-61 odd, 67, 69)

Myap: 2.7 DV #1 and #2 and #3

(Watch by 10:15 on Friday)

T

BAND CONTEST

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PSQuiz #1

Exponential and Log Deriv wksht

TH

Definition of a Limit as a Derivative

Circuit

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T4.5

get work for next week!

M,T,W

Differentiating Inverse Functions

Wksht #25;

wksht: “inverses #1” (1-20)

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Lesson Plans for the Week of October 13, 2025

T4 on Wednesday!

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SCHOOL HOLIDAY

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Derivatives of LN, Log, and e

(NOT ON TOMORROW’S TEST)

Wksht #23 (due on Thursday)

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T4

TH

More practice with e

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

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More practice with LN (see notes from Tuesday)

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

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Lesson Plans for the Week of October 6, 2025

9WT on Wednesday!

T4 NEXT Wednesday, Oct 15

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LAST DAY OF FALL BREAK!

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Chain Rule

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

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9WT: optional! Unless you failed a test, then it’s not.

You are welcome to come in and work through your old tests. You cannot take them with you. If you are taking the ACT today, you will take your 9WT on Friday.

TH

Chain Rule Day 2

p. 126 (73-76)

all the circuits: PR, QR, CR

tables and graphs version A;

and Chain Rule: wksht 4

F

workday

M

School Holiday

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Lesson Plans for the Week of September 29, 2025

9WT on 10/8, next Wednesday. It is optional unless you have failed a test.

If you are taking the ACT that day, you will take the 9WT on Thursday 10/9.

 

M

Quotient Rule

Video 2.9 DV1 and DV2: assigned on myap (due on Wed)

wksht

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

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Higher Order Derivatives and Derivatives of Trig Functions

p. 125 (39-53 odd, 91-101 odd)

W

More Practice with Derivative Rules: workday

Wksht

not due until Oct 8

TH

FALL BREAK!!! COME BACK ON TUESDAY, OCT 7, 2025

F
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Lesson Plans for the Week of September 22, 2025

 

M

Left/Right Derivatives

Wksht: “differentiability left/right derivatives”

T

T3

 
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Derivative Rules Power Rules

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

TH

Finish the derivative rules

Finish p. 114

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Product Rule

Video 2.8 DVI: assigned on myap

wksht (HPC D7 prt 1: the product rule

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Lesson Plans for the Week of September 15, 2025

Myap assignment due on Wednesday by class time.

T3 next week, Tuesday probably. Start studying today!

M

Student Holiday

 
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Derivative Notes

Circuit: practice with the Difference Quotient

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Finish notes

Wksht: HW Day #12

Limits version 1: match limits

Th

Estimate the Derivative at a Point (aka alternate method)

wksht: derivative at a point

F

Advanced Calculator Techniques (look at desmos too)

AROC and IROC using the definition of a limit

Wksht: “advanced calculator techniques”

Circuit: AROC and IROC

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Lesson Plans for the Week of September 8, 2025

T2 on Wednesday! Make sure your homework is organized so you can turn it in right away to maximum your test time.

M

Intermediate Value Theorem

Wksht: IVT (1-9);

wksht: Always, sometimes, never (limits)

T

6-minute stations: limits

Wksht: “what did the math book say?”

Wksht: “Twinning” (1-9)

W

T2

Amplify: “What is the derivative anyway?”

(link on GC)

TH

Derivatives

Myap: Unit 1 Student Practice Level 1

F

Amplify:“function and deriv card sort”

(link on GC)

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Lesson Plans for the Week of September 1, 2025

 

M

SCHOOL HOLIDAY!

 
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Continuity Notes

Wksht: limits and continuity

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Limits of Composite Functions

Tricky limit problems

TH

Infinite Limits: One-sided limits

p. 88 (13-21odd, 33-47odd)

F

Limits at Infinity

Wksht: limits at infinity

Intro to IVT on Amplify

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