Calculus (AP Math BC) 2009-2010

See BC Topics for a list of topics on this year's AP exam.

See the Preliminary Notes (Syllabus) for details about this course.

Getting Started with Sage:

• Calculatte: Starting Your CalcBlog is the begining of my CalcBlog for our class. To use it you'll need to click the Log in to edit a copy button in the upper left hand corner, and sign-up for an account. Once you have an account, you'll be able to use Sage.
• Learning Sage is a very nice place to begin to learn Sage and explore some math
• the official Sage Documentation page has a good tutorial.

Assignments:

GeoGebra:

• GeoGebra is a free graphing program that can run on Macs, PCs, and Linux machines. Try it here

Additional Notes:

Calculators

• For most of you, here are basics of TI-83, notes on using the TI-83/4 (a pdf file), and/or a TI-83/84 On-Line Tutorial
• For the computing hungry, here are basics of TI-89, notes on using the TI-89 (a pdf file), and/or a TI-89 On-Line Tutorial
• And if you have been given a free TI-86, here is a TI-86 On-Line Tutorial

Precalculus

• Trig background
• For those of you who need more work on slope (recall the first of the three big questions), take a look at this introduction to graphs and linear functions..
• A refresher on logs . Here is another source for help on logs.