Calculus · Week 8 · Differentiation: Definition and Basic Rules
Power Rule and Friends
Fast derivative rules, with a pause and check routine that catches careless slips.
- Students will
- Students use the power, sum, constant multiple, and basic function rules to find derivatives and a tangent slope.
- SEL skill
- Use a pause and check routine instead of rushing through derivatives
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-management by using a pause and check routine instead of rushing.
- Content focus
- Power rule and basic derivative rules
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management means guiding your own actions, like slowing yourself down to check your work when you feel the urge to rush. More self-management activities
What you get
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Standards
- AB 2.5: AP Calculus AB, Unit 2, Topic 2.5
- AB 2.6: AP Calculus AB, Unit 2, Topic 2.6
- AB 2.7: AP Calculus AB, Unit 2, Topic 2.7
- Standard for Mathematical Practice: MP6 Attend to precision
- CA Mathematics Framework (2023): Exploring Changing Quantities
- Traditional course: Calculus
More self-management activities for Calculus
- Getting Closer: Limits from Graphs and Tables Self-managementReading limits and one sided limits from tables and graphs, with a pause and check plan.
- The Chain Rule Self-managementTaking derivatives of functions inside functions, one layer at a time, without skipping steps.
- L'Hospital's Rule Self-managementPausing to check the form, then persisting when a limit first gives 0/0.
- From Riemann Sums to the Definite Integral Self-managementWriting Riemann sums in summation notation, seeing the definite integral as a limit, and staying steady with new notation.
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