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1. Class or Laboratory
2. Courses
3. Visualization

Subjects:

1. Calculus
2. Graphing
3. Differentiation
4. Difference Quotients
5. Position/Velocity Portraits
6. Tangent Lines

Title: Exploring Derivatives

Book Description: This laboratory is divided into three parts. Each looks at the derivative in a slightly different way. This first section looks at a familiar example of derivatives. Its intention is not to teach you how to calculate derivatives. That will come later. It is designed instead to help you form ideas about derivatives, to ask your own questions by creating your own examples. The first section contains experiments with position and velocity portraits. The second experiments with difference quotients and their limits, and the third experiments graphically with the slopes of tangent lines.

Authors: James White and Samad Mortabit

Contained in Calculus 1 Course.

Suggested Use: Instructions are under the (?) button. The first page of this lab is a Report page and contains the lab assignment with space for students to fill in answers. This has been saved as Notes for that page. To open the report, return to the first page by pressing the Black Rectangle, then select Customize, Notes for this page. To close the notes before leaving the first page, select: Customize, Close Notes.

Topics: graphing, differentiation, position portrait, velocity portrait, tangent lines

Number of Pages: 4

Animation: Yes

Grade Level: