AP Calculus AB

Advanced Placement Calculus AB: In this course, students will gain an intuitive understanding of the concepts of calculus and experience with its methods and applications. This course introduces calculus and includes the following topics: elementary functions; properties of functions and their graphs; limits and continuity; differential calculus (including definition of the derivative, derivative formulas, theorems about derivatives, geometric applications, optimization problems, and rate-of-change problems); and integral calculus (including antiderivatives and the definite integral). As an Advanced Placement course, college level content will be covered. Students will take the Advanced Placement Examination.