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What is a Derivative? [Activities for Exploration]

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Do you just jump in to calculating the derivative without giving your students a chance to think about what a derivative really is? This collection of activities are great, short ways to get them to pause and think about what a rate of change really is. And what's the difference between an average rate of change and an instantaneous rate of change? These are excellent, classroom tested, ready-to-print activities that will fit naturally in your PreCalculus, Honors Calculus, AP Calculus, or Underg

11th - 12th, Higher Education

Applied Math, Calculus, PreCalculus

AP CALCULUS AB - 5.9 CONNECTING F(X) WITH ITS 1ST & 2ND DERIVATIVES WORKSHEET

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MATH WITH YOSH

This Calculus worksheet is intended for students after they have learned the 5.9 AP Calculus AB Topic: "Connecting a Function, Its First Derivative, and Its Second Derivative." When given the graph of f', often times my students struggle with identifying where the graph of f has a local minimum or maximum, where f is increasing/decreasing, or identifying where the graph of f is concave up/down, or has a point of inflection. Similarly, when given the graph of f'', they tend to struggle with ide

10th - 12th, Higher Education

Applied Math, Calculus, Math