Understanding the Derivative

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Understanding the Derivative

Understanding The Derivative Numerically Using Difference Quotients

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Understanding The Derivative Graphically Using Difference Quotients

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Making Observations about the Function and Its Derivatives

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Connecting Continuity and Differentiability

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Connecting Graphs of f, f ' and Descriptions

Locally Linearity Zooming In to “See” Differentiability

Developing an Understanding for the Definition of f ‘(x)(Graphically, Numerically, Analytically, and Verbally)

Discovering the Derivative Graphically and Numerically

What is the Slope of a Graph at a Point?

An Exploration to Discover the Value for Derivative at a Point

Estimating a Derivative by Zooming

(Slope Program for the TI83/84)

Estimating Derivatives Graphically

How Can One Graph Help Describe Another Graph?

Understanding the Definition of a Derivative

Is there a pattern to the derivatives of a Function?

 

Discovering the Derivative by Exploration

 

Using the Calculator to Understand the Derivative

 

Working with Information about f, f ', and f " (set 1)

 

 

 

Working with Information about f, f ', and f " (set 2)

 

 

Connecting Graphs of f, f ', and f " with the Calculator

 

Building Understanding for the relationship between graphs of function (f), graphs of the derivative of the

 function (f ') and graphs of the second derivative of the graph (f ")

 

Connecting Graphs of f, f ', and f "

 


 

Seeing is Believing (A Lesson for Introducing Writing Tangent Lines by Zooming in to Find Slope at a Point)

Creating Linear Models for Functions
at a point (a, f(a))

 

Finding Extreme Values of a Function

 

 Discovering Instantanous Rate of Change

 

 

Discovering Basic Derivatives with NDERIV

 

Discovering the Chain Rule

Investigating Continuity and Differentiability with the Graphing Calculator

 
Discovering the Chain Rule by Using a Toolkit of Basic Functions

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  Estimating the Derivative with the TI-89