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Calculus 2016-2017: Summer Assignment

Mr. Kevin Braun ()

Bishop Dunne Catholic School

Calculus

MAJOR Grade #1: Summer Math Assignment

Background

The math skills and techniques covered in this assignment are concepts that are absolutely vital for your success in Calculus next year. With this summer math practice, you should come to class in August prepared to take a quiz over these skills on the first Red or Blue day of school.If at any point you have questions, please email me at the address above. Do not wait until the last minute. You have 11 weeks to complete this assignment; I will not accept any excuses for late or incomplete work.

Students will be using the online mathematics resource Khan Academy to review and practice core concepts used in Calculus. As an advanced math student, this will be my first impression of your effort and skill level for the coming year. While I don’t expect you to work on the skills every day, I do expect your full effort. Do NOT wait until the last minute to work on this assignment!

Overview

Due Date: Thursday, August 11th, 2016by 8:00 am

Point Value: 50 points

Grade Type: MAJOR

Rubric for Calculus

Mastery Level / Points Earned
Mastered / 3.5
Level 2 / 3
Level 1 / 2.5
Practiced / 2

NOTE:The last 5 skills listed are only required for students entering AP Calculus AB. However, due to possible changes in schedule during the summer, they will be recommended for all Calculus students. Students in Regular Calculus may ignore those 5 recommendations.

Instructions

  1. Go to and create a username and password. Use your full first and last name as your display name. This will be completed in class before summer vacation.
  2. Add your teacher () as a coach. Walkthrough instructions on how to do this, as well as a digital copy of this handout, are also posted on

**Note: you MUST add a coach in order to earn any credit for this assignment. If you do the entire assignment but do not have a coach, you will receivean M for missing.

  1. You have been assigned 15-20 different skills. You can find these skills as recommendations from your coach or by searching (clicking the magnifying glass) for the skill title. After completing 5 consecutive exercises correctly, you will earn “Practicing” level for that exercise.
  2. Complete Mastery Challenges to “level up” the skills you have practiced. You will need to be at the required skill levels (see rubric) for each one before the due date on Thursday, August 11th.

**Note: Khan Academy will require you to wait up to 18 hours between mastery challenges before you will be allowed to advance to a higher skill level. This means it is impossible to wait until the day before the due date to complete this assignment.**

List of Assigned Skills

  1. Find inverse functions
  2. Transforming functions
  3. Positive and Negative intervals
  4. Increasing and decreasing intervals
  5. Even odd functions
  6. Evaluate logarithms
  7. Evaluating logarithms (advanced)
  8. Relationship between exponentials & logarithms
  9. Use the properties of logarithms
  10. Solve exponential equations using logarithms: base-10- and base-e
  11. Trig values of special angles
  12. Graph sinusoidal functions
  13. Evaluate inverse trig functions
  14. Solve sinusoidal equations (basic)
  15. Solve sinusoidal equations
  16. One-sided limits from graphs (**AP only**)
  17. Two-sided limits from graphs (**AP only**)
  18. Finding limits numerically (**AP only**)
  19. Two-sided limits using algebra (**AP only**)
  20. Two-sided limits using advanced algebra (**AP only**)

Khan Academy How-To
The following steps will allow you to make a teacher your coach.

  1. After creating a username, click on your profile.

  1. Type your teacher’s email (see reference guide) to add them as a Coach.

Reference Guide

Class you are Entering / Coach
Geometry (All Levels) / Mr. Murray ()
Algebra II (All Levels) / Mrs. Smith ()
Precalculus (All Levels) / Mr. Gentry ()
Calculus (All Levels) / Mr. Braun ()
AP Statistics / Mr. Braun ()
  1. That’s it, now you’re ready to get to work!