Calculus

EPSILON-DELTA: #Made4Math: Volumes in Calculus

I blame @bowmanimal for all of this. A few months ago he blogged about conceptualizing volume in calculus before formalizing. At the time, I had just started looking over past AP Calc exams, wondering how I was going introduce volume (solids with known cross sections and solids of revolution). Volume is a calculus topic I've not taught before, and I want my students to do more than memorize the formulas. Because, as our own textbook puts it so beautifully: "Some students try to learn...

Yesterday I gave a workshop at the iMathination Conference in St. Charles,IL. The conference is full of hands-on math workshops for teachers, mostly from the city of Chicago – amazing teach…

A big thanks to Amy over at Square Root of Negative One Teach Math for helping me come up with an easy way for students to remember logarit...

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For my Precalc kids, I started toying with this idea of presenting function operations using diagrams to help kids visually organize domain changes and to see how equations relate to one another. Here's stab #1 (we started doing this earlier this week. I plan on finishing this tomorrow and easing our way into composition of functions...). My reasoning for organizing it like this is to show kids that addition, subtraction, and multiplication are all very forgiving operations. As long as f(x)...

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VectiK is back at it again, with their new hit single "The Conic Sections Song". With some phat educational lyrics and beats that are just off the chain, lea...

Add some excitement to your Calculus class with the U-Substitution Scavenger Hunt! Your students will work in pairs to complete 15 U-Substitution problems placed on cards throughout your classroom. They begin at one integral, evaluate it, and find the answer on another card and repeat the process. T...

Calculus Derivative at a Point This is a game that students can use to practice finding the value of the derivative at a given point. Students choose a letter of the alphabet. They work the problem given. Then they check the answer blanks. If that answer is in one of the answer blanks, they fil...

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I Have, Who Has? games are an engaging way to practice and reinforce math skills with the whole class or in small groups. These fast-paced card games are perfect for developing fluency with basic facts, for use as a quick assessment of students'

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Carl Jacobi Profession: mathematician. Born 1804, Potsdam, Prussia. Died 1851, Berlin, Germany. "The object of mathematics is the honor of the human...

Chain rule (in Calculus) from Teaching Channel