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This is a midterm review activity for my student's first semester of calculus. It's focused on applications of derivatives and includes questions about curve sketching, the mean value theorem, linear approximations, related rates, optimization and L'Hopital's rule. It's geared as a review of differential calculus before students start learning about antiderivatives. When I teach, this is done as a carousel activity where students move to different stations which are timed and work on the questio

This is a pretty cool project for a high school calculus class. Students will choose a country in the world and then use the population data provided to make a logistic function to approximate the population growth in that country. This is for the differential equations chapter of high school calculus (or college calculus). It shows a great application of math to the social sciences.

This is an activity for the differential equations chapter of high school calculus. Students will make their own measurements while a cup of hot water cools in their classroom, they'll generate an equation and draw the graph of an exponential function. It's a really good activity for students to gain a better understanding of how differential equations work and what they can be used for.

This is a puzzle where students to something resembling textbook practice and then find a hidden message with their answers. It's a calculus activity for practicing the advanced techniques in integration (integration by parts, partial fractions, trigonometric substitution, etc.)

This is a ppt for the different calculus topic "volume of solids of a known cross section". The two examples are challenging yet interesting: finding the volume of balloons you could fit inside the Eiffel tower's frame and finding the volume of a starfruit. It's recommended for students that think calculus is easy and are looking for a real challenge.