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AP Calculus BC Course Home Page

AP Calculus Course Information
  AP Calculus Course Description (.pdf/3MB) New!
  AP Calculus Teacher's Guide (.pdf/1.2MB) New!
  AP Calculus for a New Century
  AP Calculus Development Committee
  AP Calculus BC Course Perspective
  AP Calculus/Statistics Growth (.xls/17KB)
  AP Calculus/Statistics Growth Graph (.pdf/14KB)
  Sample Syllabi

Exam Information
  The AP Calculus BC Exam
  Free AP Calculus BC Practice Exam New!
  AP Calculus: Use of Graphing Calculators
  AP Calculus: Calculator Survey Results
  2006 Calculus FRQ Instruction Commentary (.pdf/83KB)
  2006 Calculus FRQ Instruction Commentary
  2006 FRQ Instructions for AP Calculus: Section II
  2006 FRQ Instructions for AP Calculus: Section II (.pdf/54KB)
  On the Role of Sign Charts in AP Calculus Exams
  Calculator Policies for Mathematics and Science (2007-2008) (.pdf/44KB)
  Adventures in the Amusement Park: AB2/BC2 From the 2002 AP Calculus Exams
  Some Thoughts on 2003 Calculus AB Question 6
  Exam Tips: Calculus BC
  AP Exams Calendars
  AP Calculus Free-Response Question Collections

Teaching Resource Materials
  Exploring the FTC from Numerical and Graphical Points of View with the TI-89 (.pdf/215KB)
  Seeing Is Believing
  AP Calculus Featured Question
  Why We Use Theorem in Calculus
  Frozen in Time
  AP Calculus Web Guide
  Beginning the Year with Local Linearity 
  After the Exam: Activities and Projects
  Teaching Tips for AP Calculus
  Tips for Assessment: AP Calculus
  Try This! Calculus Teaching Tips

Curriculum Modules
  Motion (.pdf/2.8MB)
  Reasoning from Tabular Data (.pdf/1.8MB)
  Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (.pdf/2.6MB)
  Functions Defined by Integrals (.pdf/792KB)

For the Classroom
  A Sampler of Visual Proofs in First-year Calculus (.pdf/201KB)
  The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (.pdf/2.2MB)
  Differential Equations (.pdf/663KB)

Resources for Teaching Differential Equations
  AP Calculus: Slope Fields
  Calculus at the Battle of Trafalgar
  The Domain of Solutions to Differential Equations (.pdf/257kb)
  Don't Forget the Differential Equation: Finishing 2005 BC4 (.pdf/219kb)
  Solving Separable Differential Equations: Antidifferentiation and Domain are Both Needed

Pre-AP
  Adapting AP Mathematics Questions As a Pre-AP Strategy
  A Year in the Life of an AP Vertical Team for Mathematics
  A Year in the Life of an AP Vertical Team for Mathematics, Part II

Using Calculators
  AP Exam Electronic Study Cards
  Lies My Calculator Told Me

College Board Products
  AP Calculus Multiple-Choice Question Collection 1969-1998
  AP Calculus Free-Response Question Collections
  CB Store: Products for AP Calculus BC

Teachers' Resource Reviews
There are currently more than 300 reviews of calculus resources, including textbooks, Web sites, software, multimedia CD-Roms, and more, in the Teachers' Resources area. Each review describes the resource and suggests ways it might be used in the classroom. New reviews are added regularly, so check back often!
  Teachers' Resources

Feature Articles
  The Immortal L'Hospital (.pdf/179KB)
  A Calculus Student Reads the Newspaper (.pdf/305KB)
  Residue of Calculus: Learning That Lasts
  Recipe for Success: Calculus in an Urban Magnet School
  The National Curve Bank Project: A MATH Archive
  Teach AP Statistics Next Year!
  Lesson Study: A PCMI Experience
  Do Cubes and Squares Have the Same Properties As Spheres and Circles?
  The Mathematical Puzzles of Benjamin Banneker
  One Chancey in a Million
  Women and Mathematics: Stereotypes, Identity, and Achievement
  Appreciating Mathematics: Math Is Good for Something, in Fact Many Things
  Mathematics at the School-to-College Transition
  Milestones for Women in Science
  Teaching with Einstein

History of Calculus
  Calculus Before Newton and Leibniz: Part I
  Calculus Before Newton and Leibniz: Part II
  Calculus Before Newton and Leibniz: Part III
  One Hundred and Fifty Years of Teaching Calculus
  Women's History: Women in Mathematics

Teacher Profiles
  Yvette Beck: A Calculus Family
  Dewey Gottlieb: Award-Winning Achievement
  Julian Dias: Extraordinary Dedication

Electronic Discussion Group
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  AP Calculus EDG
  Registration for Electronic Discussion Groups
  The Calculus EDG: Supporting Teachers' Efforts

Subscribe to the AP Central AP Calculus Newsletter
About twice a school year, the AP Central staff compiles and sends email updates alerting members to important program updates and new content items for AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC. You automatically receive this course newsletter unless you choose the "Do not send" option on the Personal Profile page. To see an example of the AP Calculus newsletter, click on the link below.
  AP Central AP Calculus Newsletter
  Personal Profile

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