This collection of Sketchpad activities enriches your students study of calculus, empowering them to directly experience the dynamic, geometric nature of calculus in a hands-on format. Students' understanding will deepen as they: - dynamically control the number of subintervals in a partition and see the area measurement change instantaneously - explore the relationship between the graphs of an equation, its derivative, and its second derivative as the original equation changes - investigate changes of position and velocity, leading to an exploration of rates of change and limits at infinity.

The Sketchpad activities in this collection give students the opportunity to directly experience, through dynamic visualization and manipulation, the topics covered in Precalculus. Students: - transform functions dynamically - view and modify entire families of functions polynomial, exponential, logistic, and more - build parametric functions, and manipulate vectors and matrices - discover the relationship between rectangular and polar coordinates - make complex numbers come alive on the coordinate plane - finish with a dynamic, visual introduction to the main concepts of calculus.

The Sketchpad activities in this collection give students the opportunity to directly experience, through dynamic visualization and manipulation, the topics covered in Precalculus. Students: - transform functions dynamically - view and modify entire families of functions polynomial, exponential, logistic, and more - build parametric functions, and manipulate vectors and matrices - discover the relationship between rectangular and polar coordinates - make complex numbers come alive on the coordinate plane - finish with a dynamic, visual introduction to the main concepts of calculus.

This collection of Sketchpad activities is an excellent introduction to Sketchpad for both students and teachers, and gives students the opportunity to explore concepts in the Common Core State Standards for grades 3 5 from the domains of - operations and algebraic thinking - number and operations in base ten - number and operations fractions

This collection of Sketchpad activities is an excellent introduction to Sketchpad for both students and teachers, and gives students the opportunity to explore concepts in the Common Core State Standards for grades 3 5 from the domains of - operations and algebraic thinking - number and operations in base ten - number and operations fractions

In this rich collection of activities, students learn all about properties of conic sections by building physical models and then constructing flexible models with Sketchpad.