Calculus AB: General Topics - MATH.1246

About the Workshop

This General Topics workshop will cover the curriculum of A®P Calculus AB, through developing a conceptual understanding of the topics and also teaching practical ways to present materials.  Participants will share and gain new teaching strategies to help prepare students, as well as learn the new AP® Framework that was introduced last year for AP® Calculus.  Additionally, participants will be exposed to the AP® exams, not only from the perspective of teaching the standards of the exam, but also grading, preparing students and seeing results of students from previous years’ exams. Textbooks, prerequisites and assessment will also be discussed.

Graphing calculators and on-line applications will be used extensively to present ideas from graphical, numerical, and analytic approaches.  A small unit on creating math videos (on the iPad or computer) and implementing a flipped classroom in the math class will also be presented.  Participants will be actively engaged and sharing of ideas and information is expected. The emphasis on specific topics will be guided in part by the needs of the participants.

Note: The General Topics Course will include slightly more skill based material and preliminary set up of a course than the Advanced Topics Course (offered in June), even though the framework will be similar.

Register for the 2018 Calculus AB workshop online.

About the Instructor

  • Tim Zitur

    Tim Zitur

    Tim Zitur has been a high school math teacher for 31 years. He has taught AP® Calculus for 23 years; 3 years in Minnesota at the School of Environmental Studies and 20 years at the Singapore American School, one of the largest AP® international schools in the world. Presently, Zitur teaches AP® Calculus BC, Multi-variable Calculus, Discrete Math and Linear Algebra. He has been an AP® reader or a table leader since 2003, as well as an AP® College Board consultant since 2007. Zitur has taught AP® Calculus with the “flipped” or “blended” classroom approach for the last 7 years. He likes teaching through applications of math whenever possible. Zitur has his M.Ed. in Mathematics Education from the University of Minnesota and his B.S. in Mathematics from St. John’s University (MN). He is married and has three children.