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Is your student struggling in their second level calculus course? Are they worried about their upcoming AP Calculus BC examination?
The highest echelon of math available in high school, BC level calculus is very difficult. Only the brightest students make it this far, and so it is understandable that this course and its attendant examination would challenge even the most dedicated and intelligent of students. The AP Calculus BC examination is one of the hardest tests that a high school student can take- the culmination of years and years of mathematical training- and getting credit for it hinges on two mathematical concepts: differentiation and integration.
Differentiation is the mathematical process of finding the slope of a curve. Integration is the mathematical process of finding the area under a curve. This kind of problem sounds simple, but it isn’t. Integration is often considered the more difficult of the two. It comes in many flavors, each with it’s own set of pitfalls for your student: indefinite and definite integrals, Riemann sums, integration by parts, integration by substitution, integration by trigonometric substitution, integration by partial fractions, integration in multiple dimensions, the fundamental theorem of calculus, and so on. And, in addition to straightforward number problems, the AP Calculus BC test boasts a healthy number of story problems, in which integration must be applied to real-life problems.
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