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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Exploiting the Connection to Trigonometry 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
The class checks to see if the formula for finding powers of a complex number works to find the roots too.  Pupils review the previous day's work and graph on the polar grid. The discussion leads the class to think about how to reverse...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

When Can We Reverse a Transformation? 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
The second lesson on finding inverse matrices asks class members to look for a pattern in the inverse matrix and test it to see if it works for all matrices. The teacher leads a discussion to refine the process in finding inverses, then...
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Lesson Plan
NOAA

Importance of Deep-Sea Ecosystems – The Benthic Drugstore

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
You never know what you will find next in the deep sea ecosystem. So far, scientists have found items that work as anti-tumor agents, anti-inflammatory agents, agents that stop uncontrolled cell division, and much more. The lesson begins...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

One-Step Equations—Multiplication and Division

For Teachers 6th Standards
Discover one more step to being able to solve any one-step equation. Scholars continue their work with one-step equations in the 28th installment of a 36-part module. Tape diagrams and algebraic processes introduce how to solve one-step...
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Lab Resource
Royal Society of Chemistry

Green Plastics—Chemistry Outreach

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
How do green plastics reduce waste and environmental pollution? Budding scientists create and test a variety of compounds used in green plastics during an insightful experiment. Beginning with startling statistics and ending with...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2001 AP® Calculus AB Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th
Take a closer look at the exam. Released items from the 2001 Calculus AB exam allow teachers and pupils to view how the exam presents questions. Scholars use the questions to prepare for the test and compare their responses to the...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2010 AP® Calculus BC Free-Response Questions Form B

For Students 10th - 12th
Keep moving along a curve. Two items in the set of released free-response questions from the 2010 AP® Calculus BC exam involve movement along a graph. One involves particle motion along a polar curve while the other uses a squirrel...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2009 AP® Calculus BC Free-Response Questions Form B

For Students 10th - 12th
Let them eat cake. The free-response questions from an AP® Calculus BC exam cover several topics that include finding the area under a curve within the context of creating a birthday cake. Calculus concepts include finding rates of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Apple Orchard Problem

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars explore various approaches to solving a problem of maximizing the total production of apples in an orchard. In this apple orchard lesson, students collect data in order to solve the apple orchard problem presented. Young...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Review for Test

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders review logs and derivatives in preparation for their test. In this calculus lesson plan, 12th graders review inverse functions, log functions, derivatives of implicity and the three definitions of e. They prove...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Engineering in a Calculus Classroom

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students solve several differential equations. In this calculus lesson plan, students test their modulus calculation by testing different weights or beam lengths. They share their findings in class.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Quartic Inflection

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners use their TI-89 calculator to find properties of the quartic polynomials. The lesson includes detailed instructions along with screen shots of the graphing calculator display.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Hyperbolic Sine and Cosine

For Students 11th - 12th
In this sine and cosine worksheet, learners find derivatives and integrals of 6 functions.  Students find derivatives, indefinite integrals and the area between two curves.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bridges

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders use model-building to help comprehend the forces and phenomena at work in the world around them. They describe gravity as a universal force that pulls everything toward the center of the earth. Students distinguish between...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sodoku

For Students 11th - 12th
For this calculus worksheet, student solve problems by taking the derivative of the function as x approaches a specific limit. They evaluate trig functions using the properties of trig. There are 26 questions with an answer key.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Fundamental Theorem

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus worksheet, students solve equations and functions by taking the derivative of each equation. They apply the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to their problems, as they solve for the limit and identify different graphs....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

AP Calculus

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus worksheet, students solve problems with trigonometric functions. They take the derivative and find the average rate of change.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ap Calculus First Semester Exam

For Students 12th
In this algebra worksheet, 12th graders assess their knowledge on logs, functions and derivatives. There are 40 questions on this exam.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

I Have Who Has Cards - Integration Formulas

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus activity, students rewrite a word problem using algebraic symbols and calculate the derivative of a function to find the correct solution. There are 20 matching questions with an answer key.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Why Plus C is important.

For Students 10th - 12th
In this calculus worksheet, students solve proofs by taking the derivative and integrating functions. There are 8 problems about integration and an answer key.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Functional Housing Market

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students access the Internet to search for housing prices in Houston, Texas,(the location can be changed to accommodate any location) and compare the prices to the number of square feet found in the living area of a house.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Absolute Maximum and Minimum

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students calculate the maximum and minimum of each function. In this algebra lesson, students collect and graph data to analyze it. They differentiate between the absolute max and min and the maxima and minima of each function.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Complex Analysis: Analyticity and the Cauchy-Riemann Equation

For Students Higher Ed
In this analyticity and Cauchy-Riemann worksheet, students determine the domain of a function, explore its derivatives, and list its component functions. This two-page worksheet contains eleven problems, as well as explanations and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Complex Analysis: Cauchy's Integral Formula and Integral Examples

For Students Higher Ed
In this integral formula worksheet, students examine Cauchy's formula and higher derivatives of analytic functions. They use this provided information to solve eight problems.