Calculus AB: Advanced Topics - MATH.1262

About the Workshop

This Advanced Topics workshop will cover the curriculum of AP® Calculus AB, through developing a conceptual understanding of the topics and 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 two years ago 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, as well as the brand new College Board AP® resources.

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 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. **A laptop or tablet will be very useful in this class.

Register for the 2019 Calculus AB:  Advanced Topics workshop online.

About the Instructor

  • Tim Zitur

    Tim Zitur

    Tim Zitur has been a high school math teacher for 32 years. He has taught AP® Calculus for 24 years; 3 years in Minnesota at the School of Environmental Studies and 21 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 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 8 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.