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Using what they already know about derivatives and curve sketching vocabulary, students will be guided through a team discovery of how to interpret the graph of a derivative! All they need is one graphing calculator per group and a few colored pencils or highlighters! Students will use technology to aid in the sketching of three functions and will be asked to identify the following for each function: Intervals where positive/negativeIntervals of increasing/decreasingIntervals of concave up/con

Many Calculus students struggle to solve problems, not because they don't know how to do the math but because they do not understand what they are being asked to do. Math vocabulary at this high level is especially important, and students have never heard or seen many of the Calculus terms! This Calculus Vocabulary Reference sheet goes in the front of my students' notebooks as a course-long reference. It woks similarly to a word-wall to help them stay refreshed on terms from a few chapters ago.

Curve sketching with Calculus takes lots of pieces of information and puts it into a single graph! Help your students organize their thoughts and practice their graphing skills with this ready-to-go project or use as group work practice! Students can choose the two functions they would like to sketch from a list of six options, but one must be a polynomial function and the other a rational function. Or instead of having students pick, feel free to differentiate and assign specific functions to