Tennessee High School Calculus Topics
This course follows Tennessee Mathematics Standards for high school Calculus. It covers every major topic from limits and continuity through derivatives, integration techniques, and real-world applications.
- Understand limits graphically and numerically; evaluate using substitution
- Identify continuity at a point and types of discontinuities
- Evaluate limits at infinity and describe end behavior
- Understand the derivative as rate of change and slope of the tangent line
- Apply the power rule, product rule, quotient rule, and chain rule
- Differentiate trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions
- Use implicit differentiation for implicitly defined functions
- Write equations of tangent lines and apply linear approximation
- Find critical points, local extrema, and solve optimization problems
- Analyze increasing/decreasing behavior and concavity; sketch curves
- Solve related rates problems in real-world contexts
- Apply derivatives to velocity, acceleration, and other rate problems
- Find antiderivatives and apply initial conditions
- Approximate definite integrals using Riemann sums
- Use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to evaluate definite integrals
- Evaluate integrals using substitution
- Find area under and between curves using definite integrals
- Use integrals to find displacement and distance from velocity functions
- Calculate average value of a function over an interval
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