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2025 AP Calculus FRQ Solutions
You can find the questions on College Board’s website: AB BC Sometimes I highlight unsimplified answers just to emphasize to my students that simplification isn’t necessary, or at times even wise, in those places.
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After the AP Calculus exam…
Those of us who teach AP classes in the northeastern United States face an interesting problem every year in May. The AP exams are administered, signaling the end of the course, but we still have another month of classes. So… what should we do? This is one of those good problems in the sense that…
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Interesting Question
Here is a problem that has been bouncing around in my head for some time now: Algebraically determine the local maximum of This problem is thoroughly routine for first-semester calculus students. But the reason why I find this problem so interesting is that it can be done without calculus. Through this approach, it takes you…
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Monty Hall in third-person
Last night, in the middle of hosting a fairly lively party, someone asked me about the Monty Hall problem. I know this sounds like I’m making it up for the sake of this post, but I promise it’s true. My friend, Kailyn, had recently heard about it and someone tried to explain it to her…
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