Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Sums of Powers
An investigation of the sums of powers and their derivatives which leads to a discussion of Jacob Bernoullis work.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring Taylor's Integrals
In this activity, the students will learn the use of Taylor's polynomials to integrate functions that are not easily integrated by hand. They learn this by completing a series of calculations that vary from integrating to finding a...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Taylor Polynomials
Students learn to define a Taylor polynomial approximation to a function f of degree n about a point x = a. They also learn to graph convergence of Taylor polynomials. They use Taylor polynomials to approximate function values.
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Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Polynomial Approximations [Pdf]
The exercise explores first-, second-, and third-degree polynomial approximations. Students label the graphs of the polynomial approximations. The handout is available in PDF format.