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AP Calculus AB consists of a full high school academic year of work and are comparable to calculus courses in colleges and universities. It is expected that students who take an AP course in calculus will seek college credit, college placement or both from institutions of higher learning.
Calculus AB is primarily concerned with developing the students' understanding of the concepts of differential and integral calculus and providing experience with its methods and applications. The course emphasizes a multi-representational approach to calculus, with concepts, results and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. A full course description can be found on the college board website.
This course is designed for the student who intends to take AP Calculus in high school. The course will include the study of functions: elementary, trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential. The course will explore the topic of limits and the introduction to calculus. Students will be expected to analyze problems graphically, numerically, algebraically, and verbally. A non CAS graphing calculator will be utilized to graph functions, solve equations numerically and to create simple programs.
For students interested in social sciences, health sciences, business and industry. Theory of probability is used to develop methods of statistical inference, confidence intervals and decision theory. Topics include sample spaces, statistical models, binomial and normal distribution, t-distribution and chi-square distribution.