Advanced Placement Calculus AB [Paperback]

Roger F. Allen (Author), J.E. Koenka (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2005 | ISBN-10: 1412058740 | ISBN-13: 978-1412058742

This textbook is unique.

It provides all the required material for successful completion of AP Calculus AB even for a student working alone. Simple explanations of complex ideas are followed by a variety of worked examples. Each chapter contains many worksheets offering a very wide selection of problems; multiple-choice, calculator, non-calculator, practical, theoretical, graphical. Answers appear directly after each worksheet. There are far more problems than would normally be assigned and hence the textbook is quite enough on its own. Many of the problems are original accumulated over decades from actual classroom settings. The excellent exam results of our students, while using this book, are a testament to its value.

Roger Allen and Jack Koenka

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About the Author

Jack Koenka has a B. Math (University of Waterloo) and a B. Ed (University of Toronto). He has taught high school mathematics for 27 years. The first 18 years he taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto, including seven years as the head of department. For the past nine years he has been the head of the Mathematics Department at Havergal College, where he has taught AP Calculus, achieving excellent results for his students. Jack Koenka received a Descartes Medal for Outstanding Teaching awarded by the University of Waterloo in 2004. He is also on the Cayley Contest Committee, developing problems for the Canadian Mathematics Competitions.

Roger Allen, educated in Great Britain, Canada and the U.S.A. has taught mathematics for over 40 years at the high school and university level. He holds a B.A. (University of Victoria) and M. A. (Duke) and taught for 22 years at Upper Canada College where he was head of the Mathematics Department for ten years. He has also taught at United World Colleges in the U.S.A. and Africa. He has very wide experience of teaching AP Calculus both AB and BC. Currently, he teaches mathematics at Havergal College, Toronto under the leadership of Jack Koenka with whom, using this textbook, he has achieved truly excellent exam results for his students.

Product Details

• Paperback: 502 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publshing (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412058740
• ISBN-13: 978-1412058742
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,208,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I have taught high school mathematics at Upper Canada College and Havergal College in Toronto, where I was head of the mathematics department. I had the privilege of working with my co-author, Roger Allen, at each of these schools. Roger was head of math prior to me at UCC. We worked together over the years on producing materials that students found easy to read and interesting. In all of our work, we sought to present problems, many of which we created, which challenged students to think and to use many ideas. Traditional textbooks seem to present repeated versions of the same problem. Most of our books initially were used only by our own students. In 2005, Roger and I published the Advanced Placement Calculus Textbook. This book had been field-tested successfully for two years, so there were not nearly the same number of errors as in many texts. For the past 15 years I have also been involved in the creation of problems for the Canadian Mathematics Competitions. In 2004, I was recognized with a life-time teaching award, called the Descartes Medal.
Since July, 2008, I have worked as a mathematics consultant at Ryerson University in Toronto. There, I have been asked to research and implement programs to ease the transition from high school to university mathematics. I miss teaching high school and enjoy the opportunities I get when asked to do so.