Calculus AB

Review Presentations

Your review presentation will count as 25% of your quarter grade, and will be of great help to both you and your fellow students, so please put in a good amount of effort!  Work on your presentation with your partners, and try to come up with something that will take 30-40 minutes.  You should not just cover your topic in a narrow sense, but should relate it to the other topics we have studied.

You should give a brief overview of your topic, and present some examples or problems that illustrate the main ideas.  Good sources of problems are the AB free response questions, multiple choice questions in Lederman (the AP practice book) or some other practice book, web sites, and problems in Anton (as a last resort only).  You must create a homework assignment as well, which the other students will be expected to do and hand in.  You will grade these problems and then give them to me.  The assignment should take about 45 minutes to complete, and can be a mix of easier and harder problems as appropriate.

For review, last year Sara Colvin found this excellent guide.  If you have the Lederman review book, it has a very nice overview of formulas and topics at the end of his book (pages 215 to 225), and I'm sure other review guides have similar overviews.

If you have any questions or need any help with your presentation feel free to talk with me.

Grading Rubric

100 points total.

Preparation (20):  Hand in the notes you made to prepare for your talk.  Score will be based on thoroughness and clarity of your notes.
Presentation (40): Key areas are the depth and breadth you go into your subject (10), your demonstrated mastery of the material (10), good use of examples (10), and making clear connections to other relevant areas we have covered (10).  You should also elicit good class participation which will be factored into the scores for all areas.
Balance (10): How well balanced the work was between the three members of the team.  Each should have put roughly in the same amount of effort.
Bonus (variable): Extra points for originality and anything especially effective that wasn't credited in other parts of the rubric.
Homework (10): The quality of homework problems you select, in terms of challenge and relevance to the AP test.  Your homework should take about 45 minutes to complete.  All problems should require written work and not be multiple-choice.
Homework grading (20): The quality of your grading of the homework.  Each member of your group should grade a third of the problems.

Note that every student is expected to do the homework for all presentations they are not part of.  This counts as 15% of your quarter grade.  My grade for your homework is based on serious effort and not correctness, but you should of course strive for correctness as well.  You must hand in homework by the next class period to get full credit (half credit if a class late, and no credit if two classes late).  If you are presenting the next class period, you can wait until the next class to hand in your homework.  Each test this quarter will be worth 30% of the quarter grade.

If any member of your group cannot present on a given day please see me as soon as possible so that we can swap with another group.  Please plan to be prepared before your assigned day in case you need to swap with another group.