Curated OER
Practice Test: Derivatives
In this derivatives worksheet, students identify the partial derivatives of a function, find the rate of change, and determine the maximum and minimum values of a function. This one-page worksheet contains 6 multi-step problems.
Curated OER
Practice Test for Midterm: Partial Derivatives
In this partial derivatives activity, students use Lagrange multipliers to find the maximum and minimum values of a given function. They find an equation of the tangent plane under given conditions and identify the second partial...
Other
Matheno: How to Solve Optimization Problems in Calculus
Need to solve Optimization problems in Calculus? This blog illustrates the steps needed to solve them routinely for yourself.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: What Is Your Grade (Part 1)
In this activity, students can use the CellSheet Application and set up a spreadsheet. They will determine the mean of a set of values and find a minimum value to be added to a set of values to obtain a given mean.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Maximizing Your Efforts
In this activity, students use linear programming to solve problems involving maximum and minimum values. They use the Inequality Graphing application to solve linear programming problems.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Funcion Derivada
In Spanish. Learn with these interactive exercises the concept of the derivative of a function, calculate tangents to a curve and maximum and minimum values of functions.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Indoor/outdoor Residential Water Use in California
Compare data about indoor and outdoor residential water use in northern and southern sites in this infographic from KQED and the California Single Family Water Use Efficiency Study. The accompanying classroom activity helps students find...
Windstream
Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Periodic Functions, Stretching and Translating
This online tutorial offers a comprehensive introduction to translating and stretching graphs, and what this implies about the function. Includes lots of pictures and examples.