Name: Sal interviews the AP Calculus Lead at College Board | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy
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- So this is Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy.

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And this is a very exciting Skype call that we're on.

- Really, anything with AP Calculus and AP Statistics

is something that I have a little bit of control over.

anything with the curriculum, anything with the assessment

several hundred thousands of students are around the country

And I thought a fun place to start would be

Both on the multiple choice and the free response section.

- So what we're looking for from students

is evidence of good, conceptual understanding in calculus.

Now, we have some things that are gonna test procedures,

but really, we want students to understand what's going on

with the calculus rather than just calculating things

A lot of thinking questions, a lot of insight

to make sure that whatever good calculus those students

- And I've done a bunch of example problems for the AP exam,

you sometimes will do some of the minutiae work

or the essence of derivative as a rate of change,

You know, obviously we have a little less than a week

so what advice would you have for those students?

And then just generally, as students go through the year,

is dependent on how much time the students have

at the beginning of the year is different from the advice

that I give now, several days before the exam.

We're not gonna be throwing anything at you from left field.

In terms of preparation, make sure you're taking the time

so make sure you know your derivative rules,

And you'll at the patterns and see that we're always asking

about understanding what a derivative means,

understanding integration or the idea of accumulation.

- And my experience with the exam is there's a lot of,

as you just said, really the mainstream, meaty topics.

You know, chain rule, fundamental theorem,

or theorems of calculus, things like that.

what I would concern maybe a little bit more, the minutiae,

some of the more special case derivatives,

or special case integrals, you know, arc tangent and,

- You know, I think, Sal, you've actually answered

So really, at this point in time, if you're getting ready

is not where you're gonna be best served with your time.

and you said it right at the beginning, chain rule.

I mean, any kind of question we do with derivatives,

they're all derivatives, derivatives, derivatives.

And if you're having trouble with chain rule,

it doesn't matter how much minutiae you spend time with,

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