AP Sites for Calculus Teachers and Students

(List compiled by Carol Hynes, Leominster, MA; All sites active 5/20/10)

1. TI Web Site provides Graphing Calculator programs, lessons &

support:
Learn how to download programs to your TI Calculator
at:http://www.ticalc.org/basics/ This site has instructions for how to
download free programs (in the Archives tab) to your calculator. The
programs, TI-user created, support most TI models of g.c.

2. College Board AP Central

AP Calculus AB Course Home Page
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/2178.html
Includes: Teacher’s Guide, Curriculum Modules, Electronic Discussion
Group

The AP Calculus AB Exam

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/1997.html
For Multiple Choice Questions, Select: AP Calculus Multiple Choice Question Index:
…
For Free Response Questions, Select: AP Calculus Free-Response Question
Collections and then select: Calculus FRQ Index…

3. Ann Marie Evans, Wiki

A Calculus teacher from Arvada, Colorado, Ms Evans has agreed to post
submitted lessons on her wiki at: http://designatedderiver.wikispaces.com/
Lessons, activities, and more are posted from early year review,
derivatives, and integrals.

4. Derivative matching—Interactive Web page

http://www.univie.ac.at/future.media/moe/tests/diff1/ablerkennen.html
This is an interactive site: you are asked to match functions and their
derivatives. Your answers are corrected as you go. The graphs are
randomly generated and you can try the activity repeatedly for additional
practice.

5. Powerpoint Lectures for AB and BC Calculus

http://online.math.uh.edu/HoustonACT/ Greg Kelly, Hanford High School,
Richland Washington, has created dozens of presentations based on the
Finney, Demana, Waits & Kennedy Calculus textbook (2007 edition). His
site is hosted by the U. of Houston. Watch: Chapter 4, Section 3: Using
Derivative for Curve Sketching.

6. Calculus Web Site by James Rahn

http://www.jamesrahn.com/homepages/calculus.htm
AP Sites for Calculus Teachers and Students
(List compiled by Carol Hynes, Leominster, MA; All sites active 5/20/10)

Jim has written many “discovery” calculus lessons that can be used to help
teachers develop notes to introduce calculus concepts. They range from
quick 10-15- minute introductions to in-depth full class lab-style lessons.
Select Calculus labs and then preview a couple of the Derivative-based
labs.

New matching lab: Graphs of Functions, First Derivatives, Second

Derivatives
http://www.jamesrahn.com/CalculusI/PDF/match%20the%20graphs%20of
%20f,%20der%20of%20f%20and%202nd%20der%20of%20f.pdf

7. Lin McMullin’s Web Page http://linmcmullin.net

Collection of technology and AP materials for teachers and students. Select
the AP Calculus tabScroll down to the first Article: THE AP CLACULUS EXAM:
HOW NOT ONLY TO SURVIVE, BUT TO PREVAIL

8. Volumes of Solids with Known Cross-Sections

http://brucesimmons.com/multimedia/multimedia_calculus.htm
Animations of volumes with known cross-sections perpendicular to the
base including: squares, circles, triangles.

9. Demos with Positive Impact, an NSF Project, has a great collection

of animated volume demos available at:
http://archives.math.utk.edu/ICTCM/VOL15/P013/paper.html
Scroll down to the “Sliced Bread” Table and watch each animation.

10. Math Mistakes http://www.mathmistakes.info/index.html

Russell Blyth, Department of Math & Computer Science at Saint Louis
University (MO), is the webmaster for this site which provides some great
“real mistakes from real student work” examples in Calculus and other
math courses. At the same website, also check out the Learning Center
lessons:
Learning the Product Rule to Avoid Quotient Rule Mistake
Derivative of an Integral
Why do we use two different variables?

11. Directions for downloading the Math Graphic Organizers CD at

the
UMASS Medical School Regional Science Resource Center web site:
http://www.umassmed.edu/MathGraphicOrganizers.aspx#Topww.umassmed.edu/r
src
Then, select: Please click here to access these materials to open the CD.
(Download may take a few minutes.)
AP Sites for Calculus Teachers and Students
(List compiled by Carol Hynes, Leominster, MA; All sites active 5/20/10)

From the link given above, open the Labs folder 2-Calculus  Early yr-
Derivatives  It’s a Match Up Matching Lab-9-07. The BC Calculus version of
the activity is available on the website from Mr. Peterson in Layton, Utah:
http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/staff/lapeterson/files/F5CF62383B5F4D5292BC1D2AC3FE20FE.
pdf

12. Efofex Software for students and teachers

www.efofex.com
Software (free for students with disabilities—info on the website)
This software integrates into Microsoft Word. FXMath Pack includes:
FXEquation, FXGraph, FXDraw, and FXStat. (Available for purchase or by
yearly subscription.)

13. Visualization in Mathematics using Geometer's Sketchpad

Jon Wilkin, Northern Virginia Community College.

This site has Geometer’s Sketchpad based demos of many traditional Max-
Min calculus problems. http://www.nvcc.edu/home/jwilkin/geometry
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