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Friday, April 25, 2014

Teaching Math 5HAB: Welcome to AP Calculus Review!

Teaching Math 5HAB
Welcome to AP Calculus Review!
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Welcome to all my new AB Caclulus students I'm helping to review for the AP Exam in a couple of weeks! Here's some pointers that may help you.

Good MCQ practice.

Try these FRQs!

2007 AB FRQs 4-6 AP Review with code:

Stuff You Must Know Cold (crib sheet)!


The Mother Function Dance!

My AP Calculus YouTube PlayList!


All Our Calculus Songs (aka Filks)! 

Here's a sample Filk (geeky cover) by Queen (not!) called "Calculus Rhapsody" which is a nice over view of your whole year in AP Calculus AB.


Here's another Calculus Filk by Bruno Mars (not!) singing "Calculus Time" all about the Chain Rule! I even checked his work!!


Hope that helps!

Well, that's all folks!

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Teaching APCS: Away with GridWorld say I!

What follows is a reply I made to a post on the AP CompSci ListServ regarding changing the GridWorld Case Study on the AP Exam:


Thanx for expressing the frustrations that many of us have had teaching large case studies in AP Computer Science over the years. These case studies have gotten more and more elaborate starting with Directory Manager in Pascal to Large Integers in C++ and Marine Biology in C++ and then in Java. BTW, both the Marine Biology and GridWorld case studies seem to me a lot like Conway's Game of Life gone amok. 


However, as a Math teacher, I must admit to being a bit partial to the Large Integer Case Study. One really nice feature of this case study was the use of operator overloading which we lost when we switched to Java. We really should do more with Scientific Computing or Computing Science applications in Math and Science. Maybe, we should even introduce multi-processor aka grid aka cluster computing!


I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels a lot of time presure in their AP course. I have a big problem teaching all the content in APCS plus a large case study with time to spare for review for the May exam to students who take this course as a first experience in Computer Science! In fact, I'm quite concerned that the new mini modules won't be all that mini! 


On a related note: some schools start the year in August but mine, as many others, starts in September. I thought something was being done about this such as early and late exam dates for AP exams in May?




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Monday, April 23, 2012

Teaching AP Calculus: Unit 12 Parametric and Polar Modes!

AP Calculus BC started Chapter 12 talking about Vector and Polar notation. We stressed the similarity of Polar and Parametric modes. So, once we figured out how to calculate slopes and arc lengths parametrically, we tried to do the same with polar graphs. We also talked about polar area! Next week is AP Review already!
AP Calculus BC: 12-01 Parametric Arc Length
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AP Calculus BC: 12-02 Vector Valued Functions
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Ap Calculus BC 12-03: Polar Coordinates!
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AP Calculus BC 12-04: Polar Arc Length and Area

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Teaching APCS: GridWorld Part 3 (continued)

AP Computer Science is finishing GridWorld part 3 writing the JumperRunner and Jumper classes! After Jumper we will do Recursion and AP Review! It is getting down to crunch time. We need to finish up this week and then do a bit of AP Review next week. The Exams are the following week already???


















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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Teaching AP Calculus: Unit 11 Power Series!

AP Calculus BC finished Chapter 11 talking about MacLaurin vs. Taylor Power Series. We stressed the importance of the Ratio Test and Intervals of Convergence. We even talked about the Alternating Series Test Error and the Lagrange Error terms. After Easter Break we have a short unit revisiting Vector Valued Functions with Parametric Mode and Polar Coordinates. What's new here is Area and Arc Length in Polar Form!


AP Calculus BC: 11-01 Intro to MacLaurin Power Series
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AP Calculus BC: 11-02 Generating Power Series!
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AP Calculus BC: 11-03 Taylor Series Expansions!
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AP Calculus BC: 11-04 Using Tayor Series!
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AP Calculus BC: 11-05 Binomial Power Series
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Teaching APCS: GridWorld Revisited, Parts 1-3


AP Computer Science revisited GridWorld Part 1, finished Part 2 (Dancing Bug) and started part 3! After Easter Break we will finish GridWorld and do Recursion and AP Review!


NEW AP Computer Science Exam GridWorld Quick Reference Booklet
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