Pacing Guide or Suggestions for High School Use?
by Krystal Kovisto 1 year, 9 months agoHello,
I will be using this text this fall to teach a Dual Credit High School class. This is my first time ever teaching calculus. Has anyone developed a rough pacing guide, and/or have suggestions about which sections are the most essential? My school runs on a 90-minute block schedule that meets twice a week with a 45-minute class on Friday and our school year is on the short side so I want to make sure to focus on the most essential information for the course.
I am specifically looking at chapters 4 and 6 for possible places to cut out non-essential sections. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Hi Krystal, I am using this textbook for a cc course and not for HS. I do teach AP Calculus (AB) with a dual enrollment option.
You should reach out to your faculty partner and get a copy of that syllabus and assignment guide. Chances are that is also close to 18 1 semester HS course. Use that to guide what is essential. Also make sure to use supplements. WHile this OpenStax textbook is great, it is missing some types of questions that I think are important that students see.
Also poke around on the AP Central web site as Herman/Strang is an approved text for AP. I'll bet someone has a pacing guide. Perhaps join the AP Calculus community and look in the discussions.
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/professional-learning/ap-community
Dan
My entire curriculum, including videos based on the textbook, pages to take notes over and my calendar can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/mr-melton/calculus-1-math-2413.
This is amazing thank you so much for sharing this!!
I may be completely overthinking this, but in 6.2 Properties of Power Series, Example 6.9 says that g(x)=f'(x)
But wouldn't \(f'(x)=-1/(x-1)^2\)?
I'm really hitting a wall on this one.