It is also very much focused on procedural knowledge without much conceptual development. Unfortunately, my son's teacher prefers the "just read the book and come to me with any questions" approach to teaching, so he isn't getting the conceptual stuff there either.
This is pretty much why I dropped my AP Calculus class in high school (which I gather from many previous conversations here is known as Calc II in most school systems). I don't need procedures, except to reinforce the concepts. Teach me the concepts, and I'll own the procedures. If I came to the teacher with a concept question, his response was to very tersely demonstrate the procedure. Wrong answer.
I decided to stick it out until the end of the semester, by which time my test scores had fallen into the teens. But because I wasn't the only one floundering, the teacher gave me a B.
