We’ve Got Your Syllabus for AP Precalc!
Math Medic
Gearing up to teach a new AP course can be daunting. Our goal at Math Medic is to make sure you have everything you need to teach AP Precalculus. This includes lessons for every day of class, assessments, and plenty of review activities to prepare your students for the AP Exam.
One additional step AP teachers must take every year is to complete the College Board Course Audit. This process involves:
Committing to teach the CED
Submitting a textbook
Uploading a course syllabus
The syllabus the College Board is looking for may not be the one you hand out to students at the beginning of the school year. Instead, it is a detailed document outlining how you intend to teach your course to ensure that all the CED topics in Units 1-3 are covered, as well as how you will support students in fostering the mathematical practices outlined for AP Precalculus.
We’ve written up a syllabus for anyone planning to use the Math Medic materials that provides all of this information. Download it below and be one step closer to submitting your course audit!
Download Syllabus
Note: This syllabus has been revised (6/3/24) after receiving an initial round of feedback. You’ll want to make sure you’re accessing the most up-to-date version.
What About a Textbook?
In the past, the College Board has required that students have access to a textbook in an online or print format. At our school, we had already ditched the textbook altogether in Precalculus and we donāt see any reason to bring one back. The new AP Precalculus course has several content items that are not contained in our old book (regression, semi-log plots, concavity, selecting function models, among others), but more importantly, Math Medic resources provide all the benefits that a textbook would traditionally provide.
The Math Medic resources have officially been approved as a textbook alternative and are available in the drop-down of pre-approved “textbooks”!
About the Author
Matt McBurney
Matt is a teacher at West Allegheny High School in Pittsburgh, PA, who’s certified to teach math, physics, and computer science. He works alongside the Math Medic team to field community questions, create new resources, and take on any other tasks. Matt was the 2018 recipient of the Pennsylvania Council of Mathematics New Teacher Award and has two published mathematics papers. Matt loves that he gets to help students from around the nation and feels truly passionate about teaching in the EFFL style, always asking the question, “How can we make this fun?” A lifelong learner and accomplished limbo-er, Matt spends his free time having fun and learning new things ā which are really the same thing to him.