Math Courses > Advanced Placement Calculus AB
| Course Name | Advanced Placement Calculus AB |
| Course Number | 3410 |
| Grade/Meeting time | 11 Daily, semester 12 Daily, semester |
| Credit | 1.0 |
| Weight | 1.5 |
| Graduation Requirement | Mathematics |
| Prerequisite | B or better in Honors Trigonometry/Pre-Calculus or A or better in Trigonometry/Analysis | Special Consideration | Students who are registering for this course should also be signing up for the Advanced Placement Calculus C, which will be offered as an every other day class in the 2nd Semester. This course is academically challenging. |
| Description: Students who intend to pursue a major in mathematics, engineering, or sciences should select this course. The first half of the course is a study of analytic geometry, theory of limits, derivative of a function, chain rule, and differentials. The second half of the course is a study of derivative application and integrals. Students will continue on to the C portion of Advanced Placement Calculus in the second semester and will have the option to take the ABC Calculus exam. Students who score well on the exam may earn college credit for Calculus I and/or Calculus II. |
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