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In article <28719.2B28AD7A@puddle.fidonet.org> Sheila writes:
>Advice requested:
>Anyhow...gearing up for next year. And we will be giving the AB exam.
>(not the BC exam). I am wondering, do most instructors out there begin
>the year with a quick review of Pre-Calc type math, or do you dig right
>in there with Calculus (i.e. start with Chapter 2 and skip the Chap 1
>review in the Calculus text) ?
>

I always felt that too much time was spent on review from previous
years in high school.

Since it is an AP course, treat the students like the college students
they will become:

	``Class, be sure you know Chapter 1.  Okay, onto Chapter 2.''

I see a large number of students who pass the AP calculus exam and
pass out of Calc I at college and go straight into Calc II.  Many of
these students got a watered down Calc I in AP claculus and proceed
to flunk Calc II.  Then they find themselves taking Calc I and Calc II
all over again.

	--> They fall one semester behind rather than getting one
	semester ahead.

AP courses are dangerous for all but the super students. I have seen
too many friends take physics lightly because they ``had AP physics.''
By the time they realize how hard physics is, they have drowned.
It's the connection that AP = college which messes people up.

AP != college level.

MArk D. Smucker   ----   mds@iastate.edu