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Curriculum Guide

Advanced Placement Calculus Page 6

General Topic Academic

Standard(s)

Essential Knowledge,

Skills & Vocabulary

Resources & Activities Assessments Suggested Time

Review (Summer
Assignment)

Calculus Library of Functions

Linear functions

Functions as models of change

Transformation of functions

Solving equations(algebraically

and on the calculator)

Summer Packet Teacher

prepared tests,

quizzes, etc.

3

Limits LO 1.1A(a)
LO 1.1A(b)

Express limits symbolically

using correct notation.

Interpret limits expressed

symbolically.

Intuitive definition of Limits

Larson/Hostetler Calculus

8 th

1.2

Ed.

15

LO 1.1B
EK 1.1B1

Estimate limits of functions.

Numerical and graphical

information can be used

to estimate limits.

Visualizing limits

Larson/Hostetler Calculus

8 th

1.2

Ed.

Limits at a point

EK 1.1A2 The concept of a limit can

be extended to include

one-sided limits, limits at

infinity, and infinite limits.

Larson/Hostetler Calculus

8 th

1.2, 3.5

Ed.