Course Description

 

Grade 12

 

AB-Calculus 

 

Philosophy Statement:  God is a God of order, and through the study of mathematics, students will appreciate the orderliness, exactness, and completeness that God has infused throughout his creation.  Through the study of mathematics, students can develop a better appreciation of the infinite wisdom of God when compared to the finiteness of man.

 

Course Objective:  This course covers all topics required for the AB Advanced Placement calculus exam.  The areas of study include graph analysis, limits of functions, continuity of functions, derivatives at a point and as a function, integration and techniques of anti-differentiation.

 

Textbooks:      Calculus with Analytic Geometry

                        Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

                        Copyright 1989

 

Materials:

• Graphing Calculator

 

Time Allotment:  44 minutes per day, 5 days per week

 

Course Content:

• Functions
• Limits and Continuity
• Derivatives and their Application
• The Integral and Application
• Inverse Functions
• Basic Differential Equations

 

Areas to be evaluated:

• Homework
• Unit Tests
• Semester Tests

 

Additional activities:  None