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On the Role of Sign Charts in AP Calculus Exams
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David Bressoud, chair of the AP Calculus Development Committee, and Caren Diefenderfer, AP Calculus Chief Reader, provide the following insight into the new policy that orignated in 2005: "Sign charts can provide a useful tool to investigate and summarize the behavior of a function. We commend their use as an investigative tool. However, the Development Committee has recommended, and the Chief Reader concurs, that sign charts, by themselves, should not be accepted as a sufficient response when a problem asks for a justification for the existence of either a local or an absolute extremum of a function at a particular point in its domain. This is a policy that will take effect with the 2005 AP Calculus Exams and Reading." This is a policy that took effect with the 2005 AP Calculus Exams and Reading. To learn more, follow the link below.
 On the Role of Sign Charts in AP Calculus Exams (.pdf/179KB)
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