An analysis of the free-response "type" questions on the AP* Calculus exam, including an a reference to specific questions from 1998 - present.



Advice for your students (and you) on how to prepare and review for the AP* Calculus Exams.

Power Series 
The slides and the handout from a presentation given in February 2004, at the College Board Math Specialty Conference. These were requested by the participants at a recent BC Calculus one-day workshop.




Slope Fields

An online presentation archived at AP Central on Slope Fields. Scroll down the page, it is near the bottom. Also there is a brief presentation on using Winplot with slope fields and a handout as well.  (The other online presentations here are also good.) 




Questions used and discussed in class in my 2006 AB Calculus one-week institutes.

Article

ASSESSING TRUE ACADEMIC SUCCESS: THE NEXT FRONTIER OF REFORM by Dan Kennedy. An
   excellent article not only relevant to Calculus but to all mathematics courses.

Article

ADAPTING AP MATHEMATICS QUESTIONS AS A PRE- AP STATEGY  by Dixie Ross. One thing you can
   do to prepare your students, starting before Algebra 1 and continuing through their precalculus course is to adapt AP     free-response questions to the skills students are presently learning. This article explains so of the techniques you   
   can use and links to actual examples. 

Newsletter

NCAAPMT Newsletter:  Two issues per year. The summer issue contains detailed information on each of
   the free-response questions (Calculus, Statistics and Computer Science): how the points were divided, how students
   did, common mistakes, and much more.


Questions of the Month  From AP Central.

1.  Learning from Mistakes - Cylindrical Shells (May 2003)

2. Neighborhoods of Infinity (June 2003)

3. Calculus with Compass and Straight Edge? (July 2003)

4.  My Favorite Function (August 2003)

5. Is There Anything Remaining from the Remainder Theorem? (September 2003)

6. What's Normal for a Quadratic? (October 2003)

7. Fun Investigations with a CAS - Third Degree Polynomials (November 2003)

8. Fun Investigations with a CAS - Third Degree Polynomials Part II (December 2003)  


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Handouts

from various AP* Calculus workshops and institutes
Lin McMullin