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Unit 6: Integration and Accumulation of Change

Exploring Accumulations of Change

Read the area between a rate-of-change graph and the horizontal axis as the total change in a quantity, with its sign and its units, using geometry.

Topic 6.1 · 10 min read

This lesson comes with the AP Calculus AB plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Rate times time is an area
  2. 02Units: multiply the two axes
  3. 03Signs: area below the axis counts as negative change
  4. 04Geometry does the work for graphs made of familiar shapes
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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