Teacher: Anil Desai
AP Calculus BC- Lesson Plans: Fall 2015
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.
A copy of the Topical Outline by College Board is posted on Gradespeed and HUB.
Each student will receive a workbook which contains problems for homework assignments as the courses progresses.
Cycle 1- Period B 1 and B 2
Monday
Aug. 24(A/B)
Review Prerequisite Chapter-0
Concept of Limit: Sec 1.2
HW: Review prerequisite skills
# 1- 20
August 31(A)
Tuesday
Aug.25(A)
Sept 14 (B)
Sept 1(B)
HW Review Sec 1.4.
Quiz 1 on Sec 1.1 & 1.4,
Prerequisites
HW: Worksheet on Limit and
Continuity.
Sept 8(B)
HW Review sec 1.5
Sec 2.2 and 2.3, The Derivative.
HW: Worksheet –Derivatives by
definition and Power Rule.
Sept 15(A)
Test 1 on
Prerequisites, Chapter 1,
Sec 2.2,2.3
Progress Report 4 pm
Sept 21(A)
Sept 22(B)
Sept 7
Holiday
Sept 28(A)
Wednesday
Aug. 26(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 2(A)
Sept 9(A)
Sept 3(B)
Sec 1.5, Limits involving Infinity;
Asymptotes
HW: Sec 1.5, # 1-33 odd
Sept 10(B)
Friday
Aug. 28(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 4(A)
Sept 11(A)
HW Review sec 1.5,2.2,2.3
Quiz 2 on Sec 1.5,2.2,2.3
Sept 16(B)
Sec 2.4 , Power and Quotient
Rule.
Chain Rule, Sec 2.5
HW: Worksheet on Power and
Quotient Rule, Chain Rule.
Sept 23
Early Dismissal
HW Review Sec 2.5 and 2.6
Quiz 3 on Sec 2.4,2.5, 2.6
Fall Holiday
Sept 29 (B)
Sept 30 (A)
Test 2 on Chapter 1 and 2
HW: Worksheet Derivatives
Thursday
Aug. 27(A)
Sept 17(A)
Sept 24(A)
Oct 1 (B)
Extrema on an Interval
Quiz 4
Sept 18(B)
Derivatives of Trig functions, Sec
2.6
Derivatives of Exponential and
Logarithmic functions, Sec 2.7
HW: Worksheet on Derivatives
Sept 25(B)
Sec 2.8, Implicit Differentiation
and Derivatives of Inverse Trig
functions.
HW: Worksheet
Oct 2(A)
Cycle 1 ends