Implicit Differentiation Examples

Here are some example-ish tasks I used to introduct implicit differentiation. First, a warm up, to help students notice and … More

Comparing Explicit and Implicit Differentiation

Here was the original problem from Calc Medic: The thought of comparing two strategies made me think of the Compare … More

Nothing especially groundbreaking here, though maybe there’s something interesting in the use of examples to cover this territory. The next … More

I like this example because it shows how worked examples can be used to help students make sense of a … More

This is just a bit sloppier than I’d like. But the core idea is to draw similarities between polynomial and … More

I tend to teach integration towards the beginning of the course. Here is an early example. I tend to default … More

For this one, I tried to structure the steps. I wanted to make explicit that there are two distinct stages. … More

For this one, I left the final step off. I figured my students could figure that out on their own … More

The example below comes from the Mathematics Enhancement Programme. But — oh no! — a mistake. (I use these materials … More