University of Vienna (Austria)
Differentiation 1 Maths Online Gallery
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.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Derivadas Laterales
This interactive unit is intended to show by graphing and calculations, the elements involved in the study of the growth of a functions and its relation to the definition of derivative.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Interpretacion Geometrica De La Derivada
In Spanish. This interactive unit seeks to familiarize you with the concepts of secant and tangent to a curve. You will be able to take a look at how the approximation is produced and understand the limit as a process that you can see...
Jim Loy
Derivatives
This site explains the derivative as the tangent at a point on a curve. The concept of finding the tangent is discussed; links are provided for the concept of taking a limit.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Antiderivatives and Indefinite Integrals
Test your skills at finding antiderivatives.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 1 [Pdf]
Students use the given graph to estimate the slope of a tangent line. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a math graph available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 2 [Pdf]
Students use the given graph to estimate the slope of a tangent line. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a math graph available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 3 [Pdf]
Students use the given graph to estimate the slope of a tangent line. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a math graph available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 4 [Pdf]
Students use the given graph to estimate the slope of a tangent line. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a math graph available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 5 [Pdf]
Learners estimate the slope of the tangent line and verify their answer analytically. The graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 6 [Pdf]
Learners estimate the slope of the tangent line and verify their answer analytically. The graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 7 [Pdf]
The resource has students estimate the slope of the tangent line at a given point. The graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 8 [Pdf]
The resource has students estimate the slope of the tangent line at a given point. The graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 9 [Pdf]
Learners examine the concept of a slope related to differential calculus. The math graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 10 [Pdf]
Learners examine the concept of a slope related to differential calculus. The math graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 11 [Pdf]
Students estimate the derivative of the function at a point. The function graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 12 [Pdf]
Students estimate the derivative of the function at a point. The function graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 13 [Pdf]
The handout has learners estimate the rate of change of the function at a given point. The exercise consists of a graph available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 14 [Pdf]
The handout has students estimate the rate of change of the function at a given point. The handout consists of a graph available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 15 [Pdf]
The practice problem compares finding the slope of the tangent line graphically and analytically. The handout is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 16 [Pdf]
The practice problem compares finding the slope of the tangent line graphically and analytically. The handout is available in PDF format.
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Slope of a Secant / Tangent Line
A short interactive activity to help you visualize the slope of a secant as it gets closer to the tangent line.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Tangents and Normals
Finding the slopes and equations of the tangent and normal lines of curves is demonstrated using derivatives. Interactive examples are provided.
Other
Taro: An Application of the Derivative
This is a somewhat lengthy site discussing applications of the derivative using a trajectory problem as a template for understanding the concept. The page begins by defining a quadratic equation given three distinct points and then...