Engaging strategies to get your students practicing!

Use this set of prompts and warm-ups to help students gain conceptual understanding of u-substitution.

We have been in education long enough to know that it can be quite challenging to get funding for resources to use in the classroom. Even...

Learn how to best sequence the ideas of Unit 6 to develop deep conceptual understanding of integrals.

Why won't my students work together? Here are our top tips for productive group work.

This is the first part of a series dedicated to overcoming the obstacles of group work: this article will focus on reducing social risk.

How to respond to student errors in real time and foster a productive disposition toward mistakes.

Particle motion makes up about 14% of the AP Calculus Exam. There are generally five or six multiple choice questions and one free...

How to broaden our definition of mathematical competence to more accurately reflect the discipline and increase equity.

The Chain Rule is one of the most important tools students will need to evaluate derivatives. The Chain Rule is the basis for implicit...

When we talk with other teachers, the prevailing themes of our conversations are the desire to teach our students well--and by that we...

We believe that students learn best when given opportunities to pose and explore questions, make sense of new ideas in an accessible and...

At this point in the school year you’re probably getting ready to give your first AP Calculus test. What should the format of the test...

This is the second post in a two-part series on how we can use questions to draw out and extend student thinking. In the first post, we...

They say you can’t know what you don’t know. There are things we learn in certain seasons that wouldn’t have landed at an earlier time. I...

What should homework look like in AP Calc? How much should we assign and where can we find problems? Let's address these questions.

I was recently playing “Simon Says” with one of my friend's young kids. They found the game very entertaining, their brows wrinkled in...

A collection of ideas, tasks, activities, and resources for the first week of AP Calculus.

Teaching AP Calculus is challenging but the 48 hours between the exam and the free response release are probably the hardest! We love...

In this post, we reveal our Top 10 AP Exam tips for maximizing your score on the AP Calculus Exam.