This is my first year teaching AP Calculus AB, and my first year teaching it on a 45 minute period. Technically, it's a 50 minute period, but that would allow us zero minutes to walk back from the lunchroom. So, it turns into a 45 minute period. The past two years my students needed both precal and AP Cal their senior year, so they took math in two periods back to back. We did Precal until we finished it, and then we started calculus. I had 107 minutes with them. Not to mention that if you've taught both block and periods, you know you can do more in even one 90 minute block than you can in two 45 minute periods. It has been an adjustment. These students had Precal as juniors because they took Algebra 1 in the 8th grade, so the Precal is not a fresh in their brains as it is for the students who doubled up with Precal and AP Cal their senior year. My point...this one lesson took FOUR DAYS. Yikes. I'm trying to decide how to make it smoother next year.
I like the content of this lesson, the examples, and the organization. I feel like it has been useful as a reference more so than some of my other notes, so that's a plus. We also wrote reminders about "included" and "not included" notation in the notebook above the layered look book. I just forgot to take a picture of that.
Files to download
Continuity Layered Look Book (MSWord or PDF)
Files to download
Continuity Layered Look Book (MSWord or PDF)