AP Course:

AP PRECALCULUS

CONSULTANT: Lawrence Yee

Lawrence Yee is a mathematics educator with fifteen years of experience teaching all levels of high school mathematics and is currently the Mathematics Curriculum Coordinator for the East Side Union High School District in San Jose, California. He started teaching AP Calculus AB in 2009 and helped grow the AP mathematics program at the Title 1 urban public school he taught at for over 12 years by introducing AP Statistics, AP Calculus BC, as well as AP Seminar. Lawrence has served as an exam reader for the AP Calculus AB and BC exams since 2020.

Through his involvement with the National Math + Science Initiative in various roles, Lawrence works to improve student equity, inclusion, and access to STEM opportunities and increase achievement in Advanced Placement courses among students underserved, underrepresented, or disadvantaged socially or economically. He is a four-time Yale National Fellow through the Yale National Initiative to strengthen teaching in public schools where he authored four curriculum units to support student learning of topics including arithmetic sequences, rates of change, word problems, combinatorics, and statistics.

Course Description:

With the new AP Precalculus course, more students have the opportunity to earn potential college credit or placement in mathematics in high school. The goal for this summer institute is for participating educators to become familiar and comfortable with the new AP Precalculus course. Participants will spend the duration of the APSI participating in various activities as they explore the AP Precalculus Course and Exam Description (CED). Each day will focus on one of the four units that comprise the AP Precalculus course. Throughout the week teachers will be engaged in a variety of activities, practicing teaching strategies, utilizing technology, designing or modifying existing teaching resources, and strengthening their content knowledge to best support all students who will be taking the AP Precalculus course.