AP Course Teaching Resources for High School Teachers

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AP Course Teaching Resources for High School Teachers

An AP course runs on a Course and Exam Description, a fixed May exam date and about thirty teaching weeks. These downloads supply teaching material for the units plus practice that builds free-response stamina.

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Grades 10โ€“12Advanced and honors sections
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Resources that fit

Material for AP and honors sections

Quantitative, reasoning-heavy units that suit AP Calculus, Statistics and Precalculus classrooms; tap any cover for the full preview, contents and price.

Why teachers use these

Why AP teachers use these

A Course and Exam Description tells you what to cover but not how to teach it, and a Personal Progress Check tells you a student is weak on a topic only after the fact. What eats your evenings is building the practice in between. These units bring worked examples, tiered problem sets and slides for the topics students reliably stumble on, so your time goes into feedback and reteaching rather than typing another worksheet.

What's covered

What each unit contains

One download covers a topic properly, with enough practice to survive a full week of block scheduling.

  • Four levels of practice
  • Editable teaching slides
  • Fully worked answer keys
  • Lesson plan with timings
  • Print and digital versions

Make it work for everyone

Scaffolding toward free-response work

Start a topic at the lower tiers so students get the procedure secure, then move to the top tier where questions are phrased the way a free-response prompt phrases them. Ask for justification in full sentences from the first week rather than in April. The worked keys give you the exact language to model when you score in class.

Good to know

Frequently asked questions

Are these official College Board materials?

No. Teach Lessons has no affiliation with the College Board and nothing here is endorsed or authorized by them. AP is their trademark. These units are written to the concepts and skills the published course descriptions cover, which is why teachers use them alongside AP Classroom rather than as a replacement for it.

Will these help with the free-response section?

They help with the thinking that section rewards: setting up a model, justifying a step, interpreting a result in context, saying what a number means rather than just calculating it. They are not released exam questions and they do not reproduce official rubrics, so rehearse with real released items as May approaches.

Can I use these with a non-AP section of the same subject?

Yes, and many teachers buy them for that reason. The lower two tiers sit comfortably in an honors or on-level section while the top tier stretches the AP group. Because the files are editable you can strip a scaffold out for one class and leave it in for another without maintaining two separate documents.

Get a unit ready before Monday

Download it, print the tier you need, and teach it.

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