This course is designed to meet the needs of AP Calculus BC teachers.
Participants will receive materials to use in the classroom including teaching notes,
discovery lessons using the graphing calculator, worksheets, and AP practice problems.
Discussion of how to fit the AP Calculus BC topics into the school year and how to
review for the AP exam will be included as well as a review of new insights gained from the AP reading.
Topics will include the following:
Arc length
Euler's method
Techniques of integration (including integration by parts and by partial fractions)
Logistic growth
L'Hopital's Rule
Improper integrals
Parametric equations and vectors
Polar equations
Series of constants
Taylor polynomials and error bounds for polynomial approximations
Taylor series
What participants should bring:
Calculus textbook
Graphing calculator
AP Calculus Consultant Nancy Stephenson
Clements High School, Sugar Land, Texas
Nancy Stephenson teaches AP Calculus BC at William P. Clements High School in Sugar Land,
Texas. She has been a College Board consultant for several years and has spoken at
numerous College Board two-day conferences and AP summer institutes at Texas A&M University, Rice University,
the University of Oklahoma, the University of Arkansas, The University of Texas at
Arlington, and The University of Texas at San Antonio. She is a reader and table leader
for the AP Calculus exam and a former member of the AP Calculus test development
committee. Ms. Stephenson received the Siemens Award for outstanding teaching of an AP
course in 2001. She holds a BS in education from the University of Arkansas at Monticello
and an MS in mathematics from Northeast Louisiana University.
