Ap precalculus

I'll be teaching AP PreCalc next year and I'm not going to lie...I'm nervous about it. I can't figure out why exactly...I'm an experienced teacher and I've taught AP Calculus before. But, for some reason the responsibility of guiding students through this level of math seems daunting. Perhaps it's because there aren't a lot of materials out there and I'll have to create a lot of my own notes, tests and quizzes. There won't be a lot out there to use. In addition, I'm already looking toward…

What are parent functions? The parent functions are a base of functions you should be able to recognize the graph of given the function and the other way around. For our course, you will be required...

Summation Notation also known as Sigma Notation. A simple way of expressing the sum of the values of a sequence. This is seen in PreCalculus, Calculus 1 (AP Calc AB), and Calculus 2 (AP Calc BC).

calculus cheat sheet - I made a sheet much like this when re-teaching myself calculus before grad school & the GACE...

classroom tips, teaching ideas & resources for teaching high school math

AP Calc 1- Applications of Differentiation Chapter Review

Precalculus will be moving beyond their introduction to functions and function notation from Algebra II and into a in-depth development of transformations. We will be applying transformations (translations, reflections, dilations, etc.) to many of the parent functions included in the image above (we will save trigonometry for the Spring!). Understanding transformations is a crucial link between the algebraic form of a function and its graphical behavior. We will spend a considerable amount…