Bob Barefoot
Calculus AB
(bobbare4@me.com)
Bob Barefoot taught AP* Calculus for 30 years at Chaparral High School in Arizona. He is currently teaching Calculus
at Scottsdale Community College. He is an Arizona recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics,
the Radio Shack Award for using technology in the teaching of mathematics and the Siemens Award for Teaching Advanced Placement
Mathematics. He was a reader of the AP* Calculus Exam for nine years, a consultant to the College Board for 20 years, and
has conducted numerous workshops for high school calculus teachers. This will be his tenth year at Stanford.
BC Syllabus 2012
In this workshop we will
address all of the topics exclusive to the Calculus BC curriculum. We will put special emphasis on Power Series and Taylor
Polynomials including the Lagrange Error Bound. Other topics include Improper Integrals, L'Hopital's Rule, Integration by
partial fractions and Logistic Growth, Parametric and Polar Equations. A graphing calculator is required and will be used
extensively.
Calculus BC ScheduleMonday
• Power Series, Taylor Polynomials, Lagrange Error Bound.
Tuesday
• Power Series and Taylor
Polynomials
• Integration by Parts and Partial
Fractions
Wednesday
• Differential Equations
• Logistic Growth
• Slope Fields and Euler's Method
•
Parametric Equations
Thursday
• Polar Equations
• The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and other topics common to AB
and BC
• Best Practices
• Best Lessons
•
Best Websites
• The future of AP* Calculus
Friday
• Grading the 2012 AP*
Exam
• Wrap up
