Derivatives using tables and graphs task card activity will give students an opportunity to practice how to find the derivative from a graph or from a table. These task cards can be used as an individual practice, partner activity or in small groups to allow for collaboration.

Derivatives using tables and graphs activity has 16 task cards. Students will practice taking the derivative of a variety of functions given either a table or graph. They will be applying the power rule, product rule and/or chain rule to find the derivative of any combination of the following functions: general functions (f(x), g(4x), etc), polynomial functions, trig functions (sine and cosine), natural log functions, and exponential functions. This resource also includes two explanation based questions that use the conditions of differentiability.

All problems are designed to be completed without using a calculator.

Topics Include:

• How to find the derivative from a graph
• How to find the derivative from a table
• Conditions of differentiability

This product contains 16 task cards in two different layouts.

• Layout #1 – color option
• Layout #2 – black and white option

This activity can be split into a multiday activity!

• Day 1: Task Cards #1 – 8 are all first derivative questions given a table.
• Day 2: Task Cards #9 – 16 are all first derivative questions given a graph.

This product includes student response sheets, answer key, and solution key.

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