CourseNotes
This course follows the CEEB syllabus for the Advanced Placement Examination in Calculus BC, which is designed to lead to a college sophomore honors course in the second-year calculus. Students may take the Calculus BC examination in May.
Solving for P: Math teacher John Piacenza, inset, makes sure his students get their fair share of pi. From left, seniors Marika Bigler, Zaynah Abid, Nathan Chuang, and uppermid Ben Grinberg.
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Advanced Placement Calculus BC Faculty: John Piacenza “The course is a lot of work, for sure,” admits JohnPiacenza, who has been teaching math at Taft since 1983. “Students can’t take it lightly. We say
math is about thinking and training the brain to work in certain ways and to develop habits; BC Calculus is the culmination of those ideas.” The course covers many topics that require different types of mathematical