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High school calculus activities for Microsoft Word
Calculus - Limits Card Sort Activity
A pairs / small group activity for students to practice what they know about limits.
Each group gets a formula for a piecewise-defined function and 18 cards. They must determine which six cards are true for their function. As an extension, groups who finish can be assigned a set of six of the remaining cards and create a function that has those properties.
The file contains detailed instructions as well as an answer key. Each card has a letter written on it, which allows teachers to quickly
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10th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Calculus AB Resources (discounted bundle)
Famous Curves Project
This is a project for the first unit of Calculus - right after the students learn the definition of the derivative and how to find the slope of the tangent line to the graph. Students will first choose a famous curve, make a poster of the equation with graph, take the derivative, find the slope of the tangent line and the equation of the tangent line at two points on the graph, they will also find a few things about the history of the curve. The assignment also comes with a rubric to grade it
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Calculus End Of Year Projects (5 TOTAL!)
You are purchasing 5 projects for the end of the year in Calculus. I have my students complete 3 of the 5 projects. This document will be fully editable so if you want to add/change some things you will have the power to do so. Project #1: Math Interest / Presentation Project #2: A to Z - what they learned Project #3: Jeopardy Review Game (you will need to give your students a blank Jeopardy template to use. You can find these online!) Project #4: Song Project #5: Letter to Future Stude
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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A Tale of Two Mathematicians - An interactive Play
After my students completed the AP Calculus Exam during my first year of teaching AP Calculus, I continued covering material from our calculus text. However, the students struggled because the material was more difficult and, more realistically, their enthusiasm had diminished significantly after the demanding schedule that led up to the AP Exam. Therefore, I began looking for alternative mathematics that could be used to motivate students and maintain their interest after completing the AP Ex
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Post AP Calculus AB or BC project options with scoring rubrics and samples
3 project options for students to do independent work post AP exam time. You can decide to give some options only to seniors if you have a mixed class, or let them choose what they want to do. Great option to wind down the year but still work on calculus.
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9th - 12th
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CALCULUS 1-Differentiation and Integration
Differentiation and Integration with Basic concepts, solved examples and real world applications.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Calculus Book for Dummies Project
This is a project I assign to my AP Calculus students as a way to review for the AP. It is based off the calculus book for dummies concept. Each chapter has an individual set of requirements, all created by myself. Please feel free to edit as you see fit.It is a great project to review for the AP calculus AB and BC exam. I assign it to the students and let them have free reign on how they want to present the books. Requirements are no loose leaf paper and it must be typed if they have poor hand
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Polar Coordinates Battleship
This is a polar coordinates battleship game to play with precalculus or calculus students. It helps them to learn about graphing polar coordinates.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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AP Calculus - First Day Calculator Review
This set of 9 stations helps students review the use of many important features of the graphing calculator (e.g. entering functions, setting a viewing window, finding zeros and points of intersection, setting and using a table). There are 9 activities/problems which could be used as stations ... or, give each pair of students a problem then have them "be the teacher," presenting their problem to the class. A complete and thorough answer key, including teaching tips and discussion points for each
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11th - 12th
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Calculus: The Coyotes Instantaneous Velocity on Impact with Key (Editable)
Before delving into calculus directly, I like to give my precalculus/IB students something to which they can relate: the concept of instantaneous velocity, as it applies to the infamous cartoon coyote. This activity "holds their hands" through the process of calculating the coyote's instantaneous velocity from an informal limits perspective.
I use it within cooperative groups, and I circulate to make sure they are getting the purpose of the questions.
The file includes spiral review problems.
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9th - 12th
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Designing a Roller Coaster
This project is designed for a AP or non-AP Caluculus class. Students will use calculus, specifically differentiation, to design a roller coaster taking into consideration the height of their design, speed, and angles of ascent and descent. Students will use differentiation to find maxima and minima points along their track and discuss the importance of continuity and differentiability for a safe ride. I have also used this project in a PreCalculus class that covers continuity and differentiatio
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11th - 12th
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Limits Matching Activity with Continuity
Limits Match
Directions:
1. Cut out each graph below. Make a pile of graphs on your desk.
2. Cut out each statement below. Make a pile of statements on your desk.
3. Match each statement with the correct graph.
4. Fill in page 3 using complete sentences and mathematic vocabulary.
5. NOTE: Some statements can match with more than one graph HOWEVER the cards can only be matched ONE way correctly.
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11th - 12th
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Optimization Mini-Projects (Calculus)
This is a series of 5 mini-projects focusing on optimization (or analyzing other features of functions) using differential calculus. I call them "mini-projects" because each of them can be completed over the course of 2-3 hour-long class periods, depending on students' mathematical backgrounds. They can be done individually, but probably work better as small group projects.Each project handout gives all the relevant background information, and then frames a series of questions. They are desig
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Zombies and Exponential Growth
This is a project relating exponential growth and decay to the zombie apocalypse. Students go through the infection and deprive their equation with the help of a table. Apply change of base formula and logs to find calculations, and get a short glimpse at exponential decay. The packet is about 6 pages in all. My students really enjoyed it!! I am uploading as a word doc so you can change the names of schools/teachers.
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9th - 12th
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AP Calculus Group Activities
This is a collection of five group activities with answer keys that can be used at the end of the school year or intermittently throughout the year. Groups can be selected randomly or created by you. I selected my groups, which I called Lab Groups, based on having one high performing student and one low performing student in each group. I used these lab activities as a grade. They can also be used as final or AP exam practice. They are perfect for end of the year activities to prepare for finals
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10th - 12th
Logarithms Desmos Activity
This lesson/activity was designed to have students explore the transformations of logarithms using online graphing software through Desmos.com. This can be used as an independent investigation (if students have access to computers/personal devices) or as a guided lesson. It serves as a great reference tool for the logarithms unit.
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12th, Higher Education
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BUILD A TURKEY w/ DERIVATIVES - Thanksgiving Power Rule Review Activity
Students take the 1st through 6th derivative of a polynomial function (7 options). They write each derivative on a feather of the turkey. Fun review of the power rule with an emphasis on using proper notation of a derivative. Perfect review activity before break!
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11th - 12th
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Calculus: Extrema and Inflection - Matching Activity
In this pair / small group activity, students apply what they know about extrema and inflection. Students are given a description of four functions' increasing / decreasing behavior and must determine which descriptions* of each function's first and second derivatives must be true.
* Example descriptions on the "answer cards":
f ’’ (x) is negative on (-2, 7)
f ’ (-2) = 0 and f ’’ (-2) < 0
f has a relative min at x = 7
f ’ (x) changes from neg to pos at x = 7
The file includes instruct
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10th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Calculus AB Resources (discounted bundle)
Polar Coordinates Connect Four Game
Learning polar coordinates is sometimes a challenge. Let students practice writing these ordered pairs and plotting them on polar graph paper with a fun game, Connect Four! This include the game board and teacher directions complete with images of winning connect fours.
This is a short activity but you could use it for longer time periods, even with a substitute.
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11th - 12th
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Pi Day Activity - Integral Calculus
Students will work in teams to find the area of the Pi symbol on the coordinate plane. Students must have knowledge of computing definite integrals.
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11th - 12th
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Calculus II Discussion Board Prompts
These 18 discussion prompts were created for a university Calculus II course and can be adapted.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Calculus I Discussion Board Prompts
These 16 discussion prompts were created for a university Calculus I course and can be adapted.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Maximizing Volume: Cubic Functions (popcorn lab)
Student will create boxes from graph paper. Their goal is to make a bog with the biggest volume possible. They will then determine an equation representing the volume of a box. They'll use a graphing calculator to determine the maximum volume and height of the box as well as the domain and range. at the end of the activity they will determine how many pieces of popcorn could fit in their box. the teacher will then give them popcorn to snack on. This activity is a HIT! especially with those
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10th - 12th
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Maze about Derivatives (2)
Maze activity about getting the derivatives of functions
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11th - 12th
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