Reading:

• Hughes-Halett 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 8.3
• StartR 5
• Change We Can Believe In by Steven Strogatz (New York Times)
• Mindsets (excerpt) [located in top section of Moodle]

Lessons (Asterisk indicates there is a checkpoint quiz in Moodle):

• Introduction to Derivatives*: Screencast – Slides
• Higher Order Derivatives*: Screencast – Slides
• Derivatives of Multivariable Functions*: Screencast – Slides
• Local Linear Approximation*: Screencast – Slides
• Derivatives in R: Screencast – Screencast

Practice problems:

• 2.1.1, 2, 3, 8, 13, 18
• 2.2.7, 9, 13, 14
• 2.3.2, 10, 17, 22, 28
• 8.3.1, 3, 15
• Answer key

In-Class Activities:

• R notes
• Sketching derivatives (check answers by plotting in R)
• Richard Nixon and the third derivative
• Ideal gas law activity (key)
• Summary of derivative concepts