Hello.
They're not really acronyms.
The College Board divides AP calculus concepts into three categories:
A, B and C. The 'AB' designation means that the course only covers
the 'A' & 'B' material, while the BC covers also covers the 'C'
concepts.
"DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AB AND BC CALCULUS: In the two calculus courses
designated by the College Board, the letters AB, BC refers to the
three sets of topics, the A topics which are primarily Pre-calculus
concepts, the B topics which are the integral and differential
calculus, and the C topics which include polar coordinates, sequences
and series, vectors and an introduction to differential equations. The
AB course does primarily the B topics with a small amount of review in
the A topics, while BC does the B and C topics. Basically AB covers
one-third less material than BC, and as a result concepts can be
absorbed at a somewhat slower rate than BC."
source:
Plano East High School Math Department
http://k-12.pisd.edu/schools/planoeast/math/courses.htm
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search strategy:
"between ab and bc" calculus
I hope this helps. Thanks for the interesting question. I took 'BC' in
high school and I always wondered about this too. |
