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Home > After the Exam: Calculus
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After the Exam: Calculus
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| | Suggested Activities and Assignments From Your AP Calculus Colleagues
I recommend looking at some of the Mathematical Association of America books (their Web site is listed below in "See also"). Go to the bookstore and look under calculus. Two that I can recommend are:
Student Research Projects in Calculus
Authors: Marcus Cohen, Edward D. Gaughan, Arthur Knoebel, Douglas S. Kurtz, and David Pengelley
ISBN 0-88385-503-8
List: $29.95, MAA Member: $23.95
Catalog Number: SRPC/W
Problems for Student Investigation
Editors: Michael B. Jackson and John R. Ramsay
224 pp., Paperbound, 1993
ISBN 0-88385-086-9
List: $38.50, Member: $30.50
Catalog Number: NTE-30/W
The first book has several problems that students can work on in groups and the problems are graded in difficulty. You might choose three problems and have students work on the problems in pairs or even split students into two groups of three with one BC student working with two AB students. The second book is the fourth in a series. I highly recommend the whole series.
Doug Kuhlmann
BC Calculus
Phillips Academy
Andover, Massachusetts
After the AP Exam, we construct models of some volumes via rotation problems and other 3-D volume problems. Some students prefer cutting shapes of cardboard and other prefer using Play-Doh®. I have heard of other teachers using JELL-O® JIGGLERS® as their medium. It turns on some "lights" that may not have been illuminated before the construction. We also read Fermat's Enigma as an out-of-class assignment with a journal and specific journal reflections assigned.
Diane Moore
Calculus AB
Traverse City West High School
Traverse City, Michigan
I take the students through the workbook that accompanies What Color is Your Parachute. They have told me it's the most valuable thing they ever learned or did in high school. When I did it myself, I learned that my real passion in life was teaching high school math -- so here I am!
Anne L. Bushong
First Baptist Church School
Charleston, South Carolina
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