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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative Graph 4 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The practice exercise has learners use a given graph of the derivative to sketch the original function and second derivative graphs. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a derivative graph available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative Graph 5 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The practice exercise has learners use a given graph of the derivative to sketch the original function and second derivative graphs. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a derivative graph available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative Graph 2 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use the graph of the derivative to sketch the original function and second derivative. The graph is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative Graph 3 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners use the graph of the derivative to sketch the original function and second derivative. The graph is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative and Second Derivative [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students use the graph of the derivative to approximate the slope, relative minimum, concavity, and inflection points. The exercise is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative of a Graph [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students examine the derivative of a graph and the relationship between the derivative and the original function. The practice exercise is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative Graph 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use the graph of the derivative to answer questions regarding the original function. Maximum, minimum, concavity, and slope are investigated. The handout is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative and Continuity 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners are given two parts of the graph of a continuous differentiable function and examine the zeros, conditions of continuity, and a sketch of the derivative. The graph is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative and Continuity 2 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners are given two parts of the graph of a continuous differentiable function and examine the zeros, conditions of continuity, and a sketch of the derivative. The graph is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative and Limits [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students sketch the graph of the derivative and examine the limits of a given function. The example is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative and Limits [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students use the graph of a function to sketch the derivative and estimate limits. The example is available in PDF format.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Using the First and Second Derivative Tests

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This resource gives a step by step account of how to apply knowledge from First and Second Derivative Tests to sketch graphs of functions. The following table...
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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Derivative of Tan(x)

For Students 9th - 10th
The interactive tutorial investigates the graph of the derivative of tan (x).
Interactive
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Second Derivative

For Students 10th - 12th
Second derivative description, examples, and interactive graphing.
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Mathematics Archives

Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Drill First Derivative Test

For Students 9th - 10th
A good worksheet for students to practice their first derivative skills. Allows you to check your answers by clicking the "solution" box.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: The Derivative

For Students 9th - 10th
The examples presented here demonstrates finding the derivative of a function using "h" rather than "delta x" notation. Graphs are included as a visual aid.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Graphing Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students explore information about a graph based on the first and second derivatives. They learn that a function's derivative is positive when the function increases and negative when the function decreases. They learn...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Derivative as a Limit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Read about the near-simultaneous discovery of Calculus by Liebniz and Newton, then see some examples worked through of finding derivatives of functions using the limit definition of derivative. Following the examples are exercises with...
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Robert Schenk, PhD

Derived Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
A description, examples, and graphs on the subject of "derived demand" are provided.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Kinematics: Graphical Analysis of One Dimensional Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe a straight-line graph in terms of its slope and y-intercept, determine average velocity or instantaneous velocity from a graph of position vs. time, determine average or...
Unit Plan
University of California

U of Ca, Davis: Graphing Functions Using Derivatives

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the graphing of functions through useage of the first and second derivatives.
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Mathematics Archives

Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Graph a Function, Its Second Derivative

For Students 9th - 10th
This online tutorial site shows that the concavity of a function is related to the second derivative of the function by using an online graphing system. Inflection points are also briefly discussed.
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Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble

Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Function Evaluator and Grapher

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students enter functions into the grapher. The resource allows students to compute derivatives, graph derivatives, trace curves, compute function values, and add plotted points.