Idaho High School Calculus Curriculum

Idaho High School Calculus Topics

• Limits and continuity: Understand limits graphically and numerically, evaluate basic limits using substitution, determine continuity at a point, identify types of discontinuities, and find limits at infinity to describe end behavior.
• Derivatives and differentiation rules: Understand the derivative as rate of change and slope of a tangent line; find derivatives using the power rule, product rule, quotient rule, and chain rule; differentiate trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions; and find derivatives of implicitly defined functions.
• Derivative applications: Find equations of tangent lines, use linear approximation, locate critical points, solve optimization problems, analyze increasing and decreasing behavior and concavity, sketch curves using derivatives, solve related rates problems, and apply derivatives to velocity and acceleration.
• Antiderivatives and integration techniques: Find antiderivatives of basic functions using initial conditions, approximate definite integrals with left, right, and midpoint Riemann sums, apply the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and use the substitution method to evaluate integrals.
• Integral applications: Find area under curves and between curves using definite integrals, use integrals to find displacement and distance from velocity functions, and calculate the average value of functions over intervals.

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Aligned to Idaho High School Calculus Curriculum

StudyPug calculus content is built around the Idaho Content Standards for mathematics. Every strand - from limits and continuity through integral applications - is covered in the order Idaho students encounter it, so lessons connect directly to what is being taught in class. Practice problems reflect the skills and reasoning Idaho Content Standards expect at the high school level.