MATHEMATICS: AP CALCULUS BC

GRADE 11 (DIPLOMA 1)
MP 1: UNIT 1 - LIMITS AND CONTINUITY
MP 2: UNIT 2 - DIFFERENTIATION: DEFINITION AND FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES
MP 3: UNIT 3 - DIFFERENTIATION: COMPOSITE, IMPLICIT AND INVERSE FUNCTIONS
MP 4: UNIT 4 - CONTEXTUAL APPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENTIATION
MP 5: UNIT 5 - ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENTIATION
MP 6: UNIT 5 – ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENTIATION (CONTINUED)

GRADE 12 (DIPLOMA 2)
MP 1: UNIT 6 - INTEGRATION AND ACCUMULATION OF CHANGE
MP 2: UNIT 7 - DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
MP 3: UNIT 8 - APPLICATIONS OF INTEGRATION

MP 4: UNIT 9 - PARAMETRIC EQUATIONS, POLAR COORDINATES AND VECTOR –

VALUED FUNCTIONS

MP 5: UNIT 10 - INFINITE SEQUENCES AND SERIES

MP 6: UNIT 10 – INFINITE SEQUENCES AND SERIES (CONTINUED)

SPECIFIC COURSE CONTENT

UNIT 1: LIMITS AND CONTINUITY

 How limits help us to handle change at an instant

 Definition and properties of limits in various representations
 Definitions of continuity of a function at a point and over a domain
 Asymptotes and limits at infinity
 Reasoning using the Squeeze theorem and the Intermediate Value Theorem

UNIT 2: DIFFERENTIATION: DEFINITION AND FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES

 Defining the derivative of a function at a point and as a function

  Connecting differentiability and continuity
 Determining derivatives for elementary functions
 Applying differentiation rules

UNIT 3: DIFFERENTIATION: COMPOSITE, IMPLICIT AND INVERSE FUNCTIONS

 The chain rule for differentiating composite functions

 Implicit differentiation
 Differentiation of general and particular inverse functions
 Determining higher-order derivatives of functions

UNIT 4: CONTEXTUAL APPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENTIATION

 Identifying relevant mathematical information in verbal representations of real-

world problems involving rates of change
 Applying understandings of differentiation to problems involving motion
 Generalizing understandings of motion problems to other situations involving
rates of change
 Solving related rates problems
 Local linearity and approximation
 L’Hospital’s rule

UNIT 5: ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENTIATION

 Mean Value Theorem and Extreme Value Theorem

 Derivatives and properties of functions
 How to use the first derivative test, second derivative test, and candidates test
 Sketching graphs of functions and their derivatives
 How to solve optimization problems
 Behaviors of Implicit relations

UNIT 6: INTEGRATION AND ACCUMULATION OF CHANGE

 Using definite integrals to determine accumulated change over an interval

 Approximating integrals with Riemann Sums
 Accumulation functions, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and definite
integrals
 Antiderivatives and indefinite integrals
 Properties of integrals and integration techniques, extended
 Determining improper integrals
UNIT 7: DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

 Interpreting verbal descriptions of change as separable differential equations

 Sketching slope fields and families of solution curves
 Using Euler’s method to approximate values on a particular solution curve
 Solving separable differential equations to find general and particular solutions
 Deriving and applying exponential and logistic models

UNIT 8: APPLICATIONS OF INTEGRATION

 Determining the average value of a function using definite integrals

 Modeling particle motion
 Solving accumulation problems
 Finding the area between curves
 Determining volume with cross-sections, the disc method, and the washer
method
 Determining the length of a planar curve using a definite integral

UNIT 9: PARAMETRIC EQUATIONS, POLAR COORDINATES AND VECTOR –

VALUED FUNCTIONS

 Finding derivatives of parametric functions and vector-valued functions

 Calculating the accumulation of change in length over an interval using a definite
integral
 Determining the position of a particle moving in a plane
 Calculating velocity, speed, and acceleration of a particle moving along a curve
 Finding derivatives of functions written in polar coordinates
 Finding the area of regions bounded by polar curves

UNIT 10: INFINITE SEQUENCES AND SERIES

 Applying limits to understand convergence of infinite series

 Types of series: Geometric, harmonic, and p-series
 A test for divergence and several tests for convergence
 Approximating sums of convergent infinite series and associated error bounds
 Determining the radius and interval of convergence for a series
 Representing a function as a Taylor series or a Maclaurin series on an
appropriate interval