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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bling and Sound-Symbolic Words

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students explore the definition and derivation of the popular term "bling" and other sound-symbolic words. Using worksheets and lecture materials, students provide meanings for the word "bling" when used in varying contexts. They...
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Calculus for Beginners and Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about Calculus concepts through online notes, applets, and dialogs. Topics include derivatives, integrals, linear functions, and derivative applications.
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Handout
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

Npac Reu Program: Tangent Lines and the Derivative

For Students 9th - 10th
The Northeast Parallel Architectures Center of Syracuse University provides a comprehensive site dealing with the tangent and the derivative. Provides table of contents which leads to different related topics.
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Activity
University of Vienna (Austria)

Differentiation 1 Maths Online Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a wonderful site that helps students understand and practice with the concept of derivative as the slope of the tangent of a function. The site contains several interactive exercises.
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Unit Plan
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

Npac Reu Program: The Chain Rule

For Students 11th - 12th
This Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University provides a table of contents on information and examples on the chain rule.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc: Differentiations

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a tutorial on the topic of differentiation. Points of focus include rules for differentiation, tangents to curves, derivatives, increasing and decreasing functions, and optimization. Examples and a practice test are...
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Handout
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Derivatives of Inverse Trig Functions

For Students 10th - 12th
Online notes with examples and solutions.
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Handout
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Higher Order Derivatives

For Students 10th - 12th
Online notes with examples and solutions.
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Website
Math2

Math2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a site for students and teachers of all grade levels. If you are looking for math tables, general information about math topics, or you would like to ask a question, this is the site to visit.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Fermat's Last Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
Very detailed and comprehensive site from MathWorld.com about Fermat's Last Theorem. This site has good explanantions and links to related topics.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

For Students 9th - 10th
This MathWorld site offers an explanation of the fundamental theorem of calculus includes links to other relevant information.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Quotient Rule

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will use the capabilities of the graphing calculator to illustrate the symbolic derivative quotient rule.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Visualizing Related Rates Problems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity models related rates problems using parametric equations for simulation purposes.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cubic Inflection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This application of derivatives introduces students to an interesting property of cubics and a method of proving that property using the TI-89 scripts. They then use the CAS of their TI-89 to generalize upon specific results.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Definition of Derivative

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use the graphing calculator to demonstrate the use of the difference quotient as the definition of the derivative.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Application of the Derivative

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students learn and explore two common applications of the derivative: optimization and related rate.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Growth Rings of a Tree

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, the students can use limits to find derivatives and to find the relationship between radii and area. This activity uses tree growth as the basis for the activity.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Understanding Derivatives Backward & Forward

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will define procedures for computing instantaneous rates of change exactly and, when exact is impossible or impractical, approximately. (Continued. See "before the activity.")
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Differential Calculus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students learn to solve problems dealing with limits, derivatives, and optimization. They use various features of the TI-86 to study some important ideas covered in a differential calculus course.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Implicit Differentiation on the Ti 89

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity demonstrates implicit differentiation on the graphing calculator.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Derivatives

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a set of problems involving the concepts of derivatives. The problems are similar to those encountered during the second quarter of a typical calculus course.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Quartic Regions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is an application of derivatives and of definite integrals. It introduces students to an interesting property of Quartics which students can verify using the CAS of their TI-89.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Projectile Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses the indefinite integral to locate one of a family of curves given specific initial information.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Using Slope Fields

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students identify whether a slope field approximately reflects a differential equation. They also determine whether a potential solution fits the slope field.