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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Worksheet 24 - Derivative

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this derivative worksheet, students identify second derivatives and find the directional derivative of a function. They also list the extremes and saddle points of a function. This one-page worksheet contains seven multi-step problems.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Extremum Test

For Students 9th - 10th
With this site one may understand how to test a point in a function for a relative minimum, maximum, saddle point, or none of these, by taking derivatives of the function. Explains and performs what is known as the "Extremum Test."
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Saddle Point

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from MathWorld.com gives an example of a saddle point in one dimension along with a definition with links to relative terms and topics.