Ms Hemmy's AP Precalculus Teaching Strategies

01/27/2025

I'm super excited to be leading two sessions on AP Precalculus at the Best Practices Conference on May 20, featuring Keynote Speaker Trevor Packer! Hope to see my Midwestern teacher friends there 😊And the fabulous Karen Sleno will be presenting for AP Calculus! And Luke Wilcox for AP Stats!📚

2025 Conference Overview REGISTER NOW! 7:30 – 8:15 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:15 – 9:10 AM Breakout Session A 9:10 – 9:30 AM Break 9:30 – 10:25 AM Breakout Session B 10:45 – 11:45 AM Transformative Teaching: The Impacts of AP Educators Keynote Speaker: Trevor Pa...

11/25/2024

My first Donors Choose project got funded! I’m so excited to use these Spirographs with my AP PreCalc students to help conceptualize polar graphs! Teachers check out DonorsChoose.org. After applying for the grant in August, it was funded last week by an out of state company.

11/08/2024

Fast Track to a Five for AP Precalculus is now available through Cengage Publishing 😀
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Precalculus for AP, Fast Track to Five, 1st Student Edition

09/03/2024

First Day of Year 19! Let’s do this! 🍎📚✏️

07/09/2024

AP scores were released yesterday and for the first time in my career, every single AP Calc student passed the exam and can get college credit for Calc I, making me very very proud. Then I received this email today ❤️🥲🎓

06/26/2024

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05/28/2024

A local TV channel came to my AP Calc class to celebrate a student with perfect attendance. Congrats to Ellie 😇🎓

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05/06/2024

7 days to go 📚🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♀️📚

04/01/2024

With only a few weeks left before the first AP Precalculus exam (ever!), here's how I'm planning to review with my students 🤓

With just a few weeks to go before the AP exam, I explain how I'm structuring class time to help students prepare for the big day. Email mshemmysapprecalc@gm...

10/04/2023

Just in time for your unit assessments 😂

Thoughts on scaling or curving your assessments in AP Precalculus. Please note - views are my own, not those of College Board, or anyone else.

09/06/2023

Increasing, decreasing, concave up, concave down 🤓