Calculus I Course Information

The Calculus I course can best be described as a "first course in the study of differential and integral calculus of a single variable".

The course has many names, all being equivalent:

Calculus I
Calculus 1
Calculus AB (via APCalculus)
Engineering Calculus I

Our Calculus I course differs from a classroom/textbook-based course in that we employ Mastery Learning so that you complete all assignments at 100% to assure competancy, as well as our curriculum shifting the course to a laboratory-style course, where theorem/lemma/proof type exposition is replaced by running experiments in Livemath as you would in a science laboratory to empirically deduce the concepts and behaviors of functions studied for their calculus properties.

Below are some links for further information about the Calculus I Online Course for Credit course via Distance Calculus @ Roger Williams University.

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Courses Completed: Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Probability Theory

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Posted: Feb 8, 2026

Courses Completed: Precalculus, Calculus I

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Courses Completed: Calculus II, Multivariable Calculus

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Posted: Jan 28, 2026

Courses Completed: Calculus I

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Courses Completed: Differential Equations

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Courses Completed: Precalculus, Applied Calculus

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