Common Core · AP Calculus AB
CHA-3.D
AP Calculus AB, Unit 4 — Calculate related rates in applied contexts.
A note on this mapping: The Common Core has no calculus standards; this is the AP Calculus AB learning objective.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- Differentiate a geometric relation with respect to time.
- Find the rate of change of an area or a volume from the rate of change of a length.
- Solve a related-rates problem built on the Pythagorean theorem or similar triangles.
- Identify the known and unknown rates in a word problem before differentiating.