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Course Title: Business Calculus Credit Value: 1.0

Course Number: 102505 Term(s) Offered: Full Year

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Honors Pre-Calculus with a 70% or higher or Open to Grades: 11, 12

completion of Pre-Calculus with an 80% or higher.

Completion of Trigonometry & Analytical Geometry with 90%

or higher or teacher recommendation.

Description: Calculus is the study of how things change. This calculus course is designed for the student who plans to

pursue a non-science related field in college. Business Calculus begins with a brief review of pre-calculus concepts then

moves to the study of limits, derivatives and integrals. These concepts will be applied to polynomial, power, rational,

exponential, and logarithmic functions. In addition, this course includes an introduction to calculus of several variables.

This course and the CHS course cover the same content. This course differs from the AP Calculus classes by placing

less emphasis on trigonometric functions and the proof of theorems; more emphasis is placed on the use and application

of calculus concepts.

Course Title: College in High School Business Calculus Credit Value: 1.0

Course Number: 102510 Term(s) Offered: Full Year

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Honors Pre-Calculus with a 70% or higher Open to Grades: 11, 12

or completion of Pre-Calculus with an 80% or higher or

teacher recommendation AND a passing score on the

ALEKS placement test ($25 fee in 2017-2018)

Requirement(s): Enrollment in the College in High School Program at the

University of Pittsburgh (2017-2018 cost $245)

Description: Calculus is the study of how things change. This calculus course is designed for the student who plans to

pursue a non-science related field in college. Through successful completion of the coursework and CHS exams, a

student may earn four college credits. Placement into this course is contingent upon earning a passing score (as

determined by the University of Pittsburgh’s College in High School Program) on the ALEKS placement test. Business

Calculus begins with a brief review of pre-calculus concepts then moves to the study of limits, derivatives and integrals.

These concepts will be applied to polynomial, power, exponential, and logarithmic functions. In addition, this course

includes an introduction to calculus of several variables. This course differs from the AP Calculus classes by placing less

emphasis on trigonometric functions and the proof of theorems; more emphasis is placed on the use and application of

calculus concepts.

Course Title: Advanced Placement Calculus AB Credit Value: 1.0

Course Number: 102520 Term(s) Offered: Full Year

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Honors Pre-Calculus with 80% or higher or Open to Grades: 11, 12

Pre-Calculus with 90% or higher or teacher

recommendation.

Requirement(s): Summer work is required for this course. Students are

required to take the designated Advanced Placement exam

at their own expense (2017-2018 cost $94).

Description: Calculus is the study of how things change. This course looks at ways to measure tiny (infinitesimal)

changes and use that information to construct quantitative models of change, allowing the student to predict large

changes in relationships between variables. AP Calculus AB is equivalent to a first-semester college calculus course and

it is expected that students who enroll have a strong mastery of material in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytical

geometry, and elementary functions (equivalent to four years of high school mathematics) and can handle the rigor of a

college-level mathematics course with the intention of placing out of a comparable college calculus course. AP Calculus

AB is structured around three big ideas: limits, derivatives, and integrals. Students apply calculus to polynomial, power,

trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions. This course emphasizes a multi-representational approach, with

concepts, results and problems being expressed and connected graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally.

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