Teacher: Anil Desai
AP Calculus BC- Lesson Plans: Fall 2013
Textbook: Calculus-Early Transcendental Functions by Robert Smith and Roland Minton (3rd edition), Publisher: McGraw Hill.
This is a tentative schedule. Necessary changes will be made depending upon other activities in school and they will be announced in class.
Cycle 1- Period B 1 and B 2
Monday
Aug. 26(A/B)
Review Prerequisite Chapter-0
Concept of Limit: Sec 1.2
HW: Review prerequisite skills
# 1- 20
Sept 2
Tuesday
Aug.27(A)
Sept 3 (A)
Labor Day Holiday
Sept 9(A)
Sept 16(A)
Sept 10(B)
HW Review sec 1.5
Sec 2.2 and 2.3, The Derivative.
HW: Worksheet –Derivatives by
definition and Power Rule.
Sept 17(B)
Wednesday
Aug. 28(B)
Concept of Limit Sec 1.2
Computation of Limits.
HW: Review prerequisite skills #
21-40
Sec 1.2 # 1-25 odd
Sec 1.3, # 1-33 odd
Sept 4(B)
HW Review Sec 1.4.
Quiz 1 on Sec 1.1 & 1.4,
Prerequisites
HW: Worksheet on Limit and
Continuity.
Sept 11(A)
Sept 24(A)
Sept 5(A)
Sec 1.5, Limits involving Infinity;
Asymptotes
HW: Sec 1.5, # 1-33 odd
Sept 13
HW Review sec 1.5,2.2,2.3
Quiz 2 on Sec 1.5,2.2,2.3
Fall Holiday
Sept 18(A)
.
Sept 19(B)
Sec 2.4 , Power and Quotient
Rule.
Chain Rule, Sec 2.5
HW: Worksheet on Power and
Quotient Rule, Chain Rule.
Sept 20(A)
Sept 25(B)
Sept 26(A)
HW Review Sec 2.5 and 2.6
Quiz 3 on Sec 2.4,2.5, 2.6
Early Dismissal
Oct 1 (B)
Test 2 on Chapter 1 and 2
HW: Worksheet Derivatives
Friday
Aug. 30(B)
HW Review Sec 1.2 ,1.3
Sec 1.4 Continuity
HW: Review prerequisite skills #
41 - 61
Sec 1.3, # 39-45, 49-61 odd
Sec 1.4, # 1-25 odd
Sept 6(B)
Sept 12(B)
Test 1 on
Prerequisites, Chapter 1,
Sec 2.2,2.3
Progress Report 4 pm
Sept 23(B)
. Derivatives of Trig functions,
Sec 2.6
Derivatives of Exponential and
Logarithmic functions, Sec 2.7
HW: Worksheet on Derivatives
Oct 30(A)
Thursday
Aug. 29(A)
Oct 3 (A)
Oct 4 (B)
Extrema on an Interval
Sec 3.1 Larson
HW: Page 169-170
Rolle’s theorem and Mean value
Theorem
Sec3.2, Larson HW: Page 176177
Quiz 4
Sept 27(B)
Sec 2.8, Implicit Differentiation
and Derivatives of Inverse Trig
functions.
HW: Worksheet
Oct 5 (A)