This year has been a challenge. Not only is there a pandemic, but my students are doing their best to learn Calculus. It is a hard and rigorous class to learn not only in person, but also at a distance, which adds another layer of difficulty. Through all these challenges my students are gearing up for the AP test in May.
Right now the students in Calculus are learning about derivatives, and all their applications. They are looking at graphs and learning how to get the maximum values and minimum values, which will be used to optimize problems later in the chapter. They will have to understand the problem, draw a diagram, introduce notation, and solve the problem. In addition they will be working on related rates problems, which a… Read More »