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Surprise! Calculus students still love to cut and paste. This bundle contains 19 foldables designed for first year calculus, AP Calculus AB, and first semester AP Calculus BC. They are effective, fun graphic organizers to engage students in discovery or review. Topics include limits, derivatives, integrals, differential equations, major theorems, transcendental functions, and applications of derivatives and integrals. The numbering correlates to chapters in my calculus textbook and designed to k

There are many ideas for helping students visualize volumes of solids by revolution, but seniors love to play with Play-Doh‼ This resource includes how to use Play-Doh to discover the formulas for Volumes of Revolution by Disks and Washers as well as how I incorporate the discovery in my lesson and the examples I use. Depending on how much time I have left in the year, I can teach disks and washers in the same 55 minute class or teach them individually on two different days. My students encoun

More fun for calculus students. This bundle contains 5 foldables designed for second year calculus and second semester AP Calculus BC. They are effective, fun graphic organizers to engage students in discovery or review. Topics include sequences and series, polar functions, and motion problems. These foldables contain the topics that are not included in the Calculus AB Foldable Bundle which include topics common to AB and BC Calculus. The numbering correlates to chapters in my calculus textboo

There are many ideas for helping students visualize volumes of solids by revolution, but nothing gets the students’ attention more than food‼ This simple lab includes directions for cutting the Hershey Kiss and a lab sheet for the students. I use this lab to culminate the unit on volumes. It only takes about 20 minutes so there is plenty time to review the day before the test. Of course, the lab could be done with one Hershey Kiss tracing the figure on each of their lab sheets, but then there

Students work through ten infinite series convergence tests and remainders with several sample problems for each convergence test. This is a great review putting all the tests together. All my foldables are self-guided which allow the students to start the foldable in class for about 10 to 15 minutes then complete the AP style examples at home. This foldable can be used alone or glued into an Interactive Notebook the size of a 9½ by 7½ composition book. Hope this is helpful. Enjoy! This is th

This Bundle contains everything you need to teach the unit on limits, both as x approaches c and ∞: a huge flipchart with all the notes for the unit, a flipchart with bellringers to match the unit notes, the lesson plans and assignments and critical thinking journals, two formative assessments one summative assessment, two foldables, and the table of contents for the interactive notebook. This units lasts approximately two weeks. Enjoy Please rate this product and follow me for more units. I

There are many ideas for helping students visualize volumes of solids by cross sections, but nothing gets the students’ attention more than food‼ This simple packet includes directions for making the hemisphere cake and a lab sheet for the students. The lab only takes about 20 minutes so there is plenty time to present the lesson with examples and culminate with the hemisphere cake. Of course, the lab could be done with half of a ball of Styrofoam, but where’s the fun in that???? My students

Students practice the four methods for finding the volume of solids: cross section, washer, disk and shell. (Yes, I know the shell method is not a required topic on the AP test, but it is a great method in certain situations.) All my foldables are self-guided which allow the students to start the foldable in class for about 10 to 15 minutes then complete the AP style examples at home. This foldable can be used alone or glued into an Interactive Notebook the size of a 9½ by 7½ composition book.

This Bundle contains everything you need to teach Ch. 4A, the beginning unit on Antidifferentiation: a flipchart with all the notes for the unit, a flipchart with bellringers to match the unit notes, the lesson plans and assignments and critical thinking journals, three summative assessments (quizzes), two foldables, and the table of contents for the interactive notebook. (My textbook covers late transcendentals so there are no natural logs, exponential or inverse trig functions in this unit.) A

I divide the chapter on derivatives into three tests – Ch. 2A Definition of Derivative (including some fast derivative rules, intro to velocity and acceleration and rate of change), Ch. 2B More Derivatives (product/quotient rules, chain rule, implicit differentiation) and Ch. 2C Related Rates. This Bundle contains everything you need to teach Ch. 2A, the unit on the Definition of Derivative: a flipchart with all the notes for the unit, a flipchart with bellringers to match the unit notes, the le

Use this foldable to engage your students while they review the three definitions of derivatives and apply them to examples analytically. All my foldables are self-guided which allow the students to start the foldable in class for about 10 to 15 minutes then complete the AP style examples at home. This foldable can be used alone or glued into an Interactive Notebook the size of a 9½ by 7½ composition book. Hope this is helpful. Enjoy! This is the first foldable for Ch. 2 in our calculus textb

This Bundle contains everything you need to teach Ch. 2B, the unit on More Derivatives: a flipchart with all the notes for the unit, a flipchart with bellringers to match the unit notes, the lesson plans and assignments and critical thinking journals, three formative assessments, one summative assessment, two foldables, a lab and the table of contents for the interactive notebook. My textbook covers late transcendentals so there are no natural logs, exponential of inverse trig functions in this

Students will list the derivatives and integrals of exponential functions and inverse trig functions then work an example of each. All my foldables are self-guided which allow the students to start the foldable in class for about 10 to 15 minutes then complete the AP style examples at home. This foldable can be used alone or glued into an Interactive Notebook the size of a 9½ by 7½ composition book. Hope this is helpful. Enjoy! This is the fourth foldable for Ch. 5 in our calculus textboo

Students work through the eight common functions that can be represented as Power Series. The students must fill in the explicit formula, the first five terms of the expanded form, and the interval of convergence of each function. This is a great review putting all the power series together. All my foldables are self-guided which allow the students to start the foldable in class for about 10 to 15 minutes then complete the AP style examples at home. This foldable can be used alone or glued int

Students review four strategies for integrating more complex functions in which the chain is not present in the integrand: composite functions, trig functions with multiple arguments, binomials, and functions with extra x’s not part of the chain. I am not a fan of u-substitution in the simple compositions that can be antidifferentiated by compensating with a constant; however, there is a definite integral example with a more complicated integrand that must be worked using u-sub. All my foldabl

Students solve differential equations or approximate solutions analytically, graphically and numerically – finding general and particular solutions to separable DE’s, drawing slope fields, and using Euler’s method to approximate a solution. This foldable is a trifold with pockets. Students work six problems for each method and store them in the correct pockets. I realize that Euler’s method and logistical growth are AP Calculus BC topics, but the foldable is designed so that AB students can cu

This Bundle contains everything you need to teach Ch. 3A, the unit on Curve Sketching: a flipchart with all the notes for the unit, a flipchart with bellringers to match the unit notes, the lesson plans and assignments and critical thinking journals, two summative assessments, two foldables, and the table of contents for the interactive notebook. (My textbook covers late transcendentals so there are no natural logs, exponential or inverse trig functions in this unit.) I divide the chapter on

Yes, I know – there is no calculus in this foldable, but I hate spending time reviewing. So I give this foldable to my students to review the graphs, domains and ranges of the inverse trig functions. They all have their Interactive Notebooks from last year and can look up the information there or in their textbooks or Google it!! Then they are ready to do some calculus with inverse trig functions. All my foldables are self-guided which allow the students to start the foldable in class for a

More flipcharts to simplify your life!!!! All your notes and examples in one place!!!! No need to open the book or write notes to refer to. Just start and complete each day’s lesson in the unit with this flipchart. I divide Ch. 4 where the students first get introduced to Integration into two tests. In Ch. 4A, the students find simple antiderivatives, solve simple differential equations and get introduced to definite integration using rectangles and trapezoids. In Ch. 4B, the students will anti

All students love a field trip even if it is only to McDonald’s to measure the temperature of the coffee. We meet at 7:30 in the morning at McDonald’s, set up in the playroom (no children are playing that early), eat breakfast and use temperature probes to collect data on the cooling coffee. The students have already researched the McDonald’s 1992 hot coffee lawsuit so we are there to find out if anything has changed since that time. We return to school and finish the “field trip” in the comput