Calculus BC

Gary taught AP Calculus at Davis High School for 20 years and has been an AP Reader for 6 years. He was instrumental in building one of the largest and most successful AP programs in the United States. Gary has led College BoardTM Calculus workshops in Bellevue, Bozeman, Bountiful, San Mateo, Denver, San Antonio, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, La Jolla, El Paso, Kaysville, Grand Junction, Vancouver, WA, Palo Alto, Irvine, Richmond, Kaneohe, Lagos, Mumbai, Pompano Beach, McClellan Park, Anchorage, Albuquerque, San Gabriel, Calgary, Vancouver, BC, Santa Anna, Winnipeg, Farmington, Seattle, Tucson, and Nanjing.
Gary is coauthor of “The Essentials of Calculus” and “Calculus Extended”.
Approximately half of the instruction for this online workshop will be synchronous Zoom sessions and half will be asynchronous video instruction and Calculus practice.
A TI 84 graphing calculator will be used.
Calculus BC Agenda
• Building a more successful AP program
• Access and Equity (student selection and recruitment)
• PreAP course alignment
• Test prep strategies
• Changes included in the new Course and Exam Description
• Online resources available in AP Classroom
AB Calculus Topics (mostly brief discussion)
• Implicit Differentiation and Related Rates
• Mean Value Theorem, Curve Sketching
• Integration and The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
• Differential Equations and Slope Fields
• L’Hospital’s Rule
BC Calculus Topics (in-depth study)
• Integration by Parts
•Improper Integrals
•Series
• Taylor Series
• Convergence Tests
• Interval of Convergence
• Error Bound
• Parametrics
• Polars
• Vectors
•AP* Test Review Materials and Strategies
•The 2021 Free Response Exam