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