Teacher: Anil Desai
AP Calculus AB- Lesson Plans: Fall 2014
Textbook: Calculus-Early Transcendental Functions by Robert Smith and Roland Minton (3rd edition)
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Cycle 1- Period B 3
Monday
Aug 25 (A/B)
Review Prerequisite
Sec 1.2 - Concept of
Limit
HW: Review of
Prerequisite Skills #113
Sept 1
Tuesday
Aug 26 (A)
Sept 2 (A)
Sept 15(B)
Sept 9 (B)
Sec 1.4 – Continuity
and its consequences,
IVT and EVT
Quiz 2 on Sec 1.3
and Sec 1.4
HW: Review of
Prerequisite Skills
#55-57
Sec 1.4 #26- 49 odd
Sept 16 (A)
Test 1 on
Prerequisites + Sec
1.2-1.4
Sept 22 (A)
Sept 29 (B)
Review/Catch up Day
HW: Study for the
test
Thursday
Aug 28 (A)
Sept 4 (A)
Sec 1.4 – Continuity
and its consequences
HW: Review of
Prerequisite Skills
#42-46
Sec 1.4 #1-25 odd
Labor Day Holiday
Sept 8(A)
Wednesday
Aug 27 (B)
Sec 1.2 - Concept of
Limit
HW: Review of
Prerequisite Skills
#14-21
Sec 1.2 #1-25 odd
Sept 3 (B)
Sept 23 (B)
Sec 2.4 - Product and
Quotient Rule
HW: Worksheet on
Product and Quotient
Rule
Sept 30 (A)
Sept 10 (A)
Sept 11 (B)
Friday
Aug 29 (B)
Sec 1.3 - Computation
of Limits
HW: Review of
Prerequisite Skills
#22-30
Sec 1.3 #1-33 odd
Sept5 (B)
Quiz 1 on Sec 1.2 &
Sec 1.3
HW: Review of
Prerequisite Skills
#31-41
Sec 1.3 #(39-45, 4961)odd
Sept 12 (A)
Sec 1.5 - Limits
involving Infinity;
Asymptotes
HW: Review of
Prerequisite Skills
#58-61
Sec 1.5 # 1-33 odd
Sept 17 (B)
Sec 2.2 and 2.3 - The
Derivative
HW: Worksheet –
Derivatives by
Definition and Power
Rule
Sept 24 (A)
Sept 18 (A)
Sept 19(B)
Review
Quiz 3 on 1.5, 2.22.3
Sept 25 (B)
Quiz 4 on Chapters
1 and 2
HW: Study for the
test
Sept 26 (A)
Oct 1 (B)
Oct 2 (A)
Oct 3 (B)
Test 2 on Chapters 1
and 2
Cycle 1 Ends
Fall Holiday
Early Dismissal
Note: This is a tentative schedule. Necessary changes will be made depending upon other school activities and
those changes will be announced in class.