High School Calculus
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Teacher: Daniel Geller
Email: dgeller@stanbridgeacademy.org Link to Calculus Google Classroom |
Grading
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Course Overview: This high school calculus course course emphasizes a multi-representational approach to calculus with concepts, results, and problems expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. The course teaches students how to communicate mathematics and explain solutions to problems both verbally and in sentences. Students will explore and apply the conceptual underpinnings of calculus by examining the concept of the limit. Applications of limits such as the average rate of change in various disciplines will be addressed. In addition, the concept of limit will be extended to the idea of the derivative and integral in multiple representations and with applications to various disciplines.
Calculus Curriculum Core Text
Course Classwork
Classwork must be turned in before midnight on the day of class. Pictures of your work, or an electronic document with your answers, must be included in your submission. As long as your work demonstrates an authentic effort for 90 minutes, you do not need to finish the problem set in order to get full credit. A late penalty of 10% will be deducted every day it is late.
Course Homework
Homework problem sets will be given on Wednesdays by the end of class and must be submitted by the following Monday no later than midnight. They will be graded 50% based on effort and 50% based on accuracy.
Course Assessments
Short quizzes and mid-unit assessments will serve as “informative” assessments throughout each unit. Summative assessments (Unit Exams) will include constructed response, multiple-choice and on-demand writing questions similar to those found on an AP exam.
- Calculus with Analytic Geometry, 8th Edition. Larson, Hostetler and Edwards, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
- Additionally necessary is a graphing calculator (TI-84 Plus or higher recommended).
Course Classwork
Classwork must be turned in before midnight on the day of class. Pictures of your work, or an electronic document with your answers, must be included in your submission. As long as your work demonstrates an authentic effort for 90 minutes, you do not need to finish the problem set in order to get full credit. A late penalty of 10% will be deducted every day it is late.
Course Homework
Homework problem sets will be given on Wednesdays by the end of class and must be submitted by the following Monday no later than midnight. They will be graded 50% based on effort and 50% based on accuracy.
Course Assessments
Short quizzes and mid-unit assessments will serve as “informative” assessments throughout each unit. Summative assessments (Unit Exams) will include constructed response, multiple-choice and on-demand writing questions similar to those found on an AP exam.
