Unit V Concept 1

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Author: Crystal Kirch

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Students will be able to answer the following questions in their WSQ

1. What is a derivative? Tell me everything you know and understand about it so far.

2. Compare and contrast a tangent line with a secant line? How do we find the slope of a secant line? How do we find the slope of a tangent line?

3. What does delta x stand for? What do we use instead of delta x? Describe when we see delta x and what it represents in the formula for the difference quotient.

4. How many derivatives can a graph have? Explain.

Students will be able to solve the following "Secret Questions"

Answer to secret question PAGE 5 #4

Answer to secret question PAGE 5 #5

Answer to secret question PAGE 5 #6

Students will learn the following skills:

Finding the derivative function (the limit of the difference quotient)

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