This is a first day intro presentation of calculus that will give your students a rough preview or overview about limits, derivatives, and integrals! Create in-class conversations on the 1st day (or early days) about their upcoming journey with this no-pressure introduction. Ideas that are covered include that limits want y-values, derivatives want slopes, and integrals want area. A worksheet intended for the students to actively follow along and practice problems is included.

This lesson is intended to be mainly an introduction lecture and discussion. There are only 6 practice questions at the end.

Contents

· This PowerPoint™ presentation has 57 slides but please don’t let that scare you! Many of them are only meant to be up there for no more than a few seconds. If you still feel like it’s too long, obviously you can delete the slides you do not feel are necessary.

Do you prefer Google Slides to PowerPoints? Ppts can easily be converted to Google Slides (see last page of this document for directions).

· A worksheet (page 3 and 4 of this document) for the students to use as notes as they go through the slides, which includes the lesson problems AND 6 additional practice problems. Just print page 3-4 of this document for the students.

o The key to the student practice set is embedded at the end of their worksheet because this wasn’t meant to be a grade.