AP® Calculus: Challenging Concepts from Calculus AB & Calculus BC (edX)

Master the most difficult topics in your AP® Calculus AB & Calculus BC courses. Well-respected AP instructors from around the United States will lead you through video instruction, exam-style questions and interactive activities to help you master the most challenging concepts in the AP® Calculus AB & Calculus BC curriculum.

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Each module will cover one of the most demanding concepts in this AP® Calculus AB & Calculus BC (based on College Board data from 2011–2013 Advanced Placement® exams).

These tricky topics are broken up into bite-sized pieces—with short instructional videos, interactive graphs, and practice problems written by many of the same people who write and grade your AP® Calculus exams.

Topics include:

- AB/BC: Limits

- AB/BC: Definition of Derivative

- AB/BC: Chain Rule

- AB/BC: Implicit Differentiation

- BC*: L’Hospital’s Rule

- AB/BC: Riemann Sums

- AB/BC: Functions Defined by Definite Integrals

- AB/BC: Modeling & Solving Differential Equations (1)

- AB/BC: Modeling & Solving Differential Equations (2)

- AB/BC: Rectilinear Motion

- BC: Parametric Equations

- BC: Introduction to Series

- BC: Series Convergence

- BC: Series Manipulation

This course is specifically designed for blended learning in AP classrooms, but can also be used by AP students independently as supplementary help and exam review.
What you'll learn

- Mastery of challenging concepts from the AP® Calculus AB & BC curricula

- Build confidence in the material as you learn concepts from experienced AP® Calculus teachers

- Build graphical intuition through interactive graphing

- Practice for your exam with graded exam-style questions (with explanations)

Syllabus

- Limits : Pario-Lee Law, AP Calculus Instructor, D'Evelyn Junior/Senior High School, Littleton, CO

- Chain Rule : Monique Morton, Mathematics Director, AdvanceKentucky, Lexington, KY

- Implicit Differentiation : Monique Morton, Mathematics Director, AdvanceKentucky, Lexington, KY

- Rectilinear Motion , Vicki Carter, AP Calculus Instructor, West Florence High School, Florence, SC

- Parametric Equations : Vicki Carter, AP Calculus Instructor, West Florence High School, Florence, SC

- L’Hospital’s Rule : Mark Howell, AP Calculus Instructor, Gonzaga High School, Washington, DC

- Riemann Sums : Peter Atlas, AP Calculus Instructor, Concord Carlisle Regional High School, Concord, MA

- Functions Defined by Definite Integrals: Scott Pass, AP Calculus Instructor, McCallum High School, Austin, TX

- Modeling with & Solving Differential Equations (1): Jennifer Wexler, AP Calculus Instructor, New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL

- Modeling with & Solving Differential Equations (2): Jennifer Wexler, AP Calculus Instructor, New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL

- Introduction to Series : Jane Wortman, AP Calculus Instructor, Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, CA

- Series Convergence : Jane Wortman, AP Calculus Instructor, Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, CA

- Series Manipulation : Jane Wortman, AP Calculus Instructor, Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, CA