Students focus their skills on describing change and analyzing functions to model real-world behavior.
Average rate of change Instantaneous rate of change
The objective of this activity is to explore how to calculate average rates of change in the context of a road trip. Students create graphs given specific scenarios and estimate the average speed between two points. This activity also leads into a discussion about how average rate of change compares to the instantaneous rate of change.
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The objective of this activity is to optimize the area formed when a wire of a given length is cut and used to create two shapes.
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The objective of this activity is to interpret the meaning of derivatives and integrals in the context of the tasks performed by an airline crew.
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The objective of this activity is to determine the relationship between Euler's Method and Riemann Sums approximations for scenarios involving accumlated change.
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