Derivatives

These are resources for teaching students how to recognize relationships between graphs of functions, their first- and second derivatives that were sent in by contributors to the AP Calculus Electronic Discussion Group (EDG). Some were written by other teachers, and the author is credited whenever possible.

There is (are?) a range of activities provided here: its worth the effort to search through this archive for something that might work for your classes. Also, please add anything to the list that you would like to share.

__**Files:**__ from Suminder Singh (written and copyrighted by Jim Rahn) from Karen Klem from Suzanne Timbrouk (three of these are TI Interactive files) from Linda Roy from Donna Noll, created by Mary Ann Gore from Sean Turkington (this is a GeoGebra file) from James Kelley from Barbara Nayder from Lois Leader (and she wins the Best File Name award) from Carol Hynes (2 files), created by Larry Pederson from Holly Wamsley, created by Larry Pederson from Debbie Preston from Lin McMullin (from his book "Teaching AP Calculus" 2nd ed) from Susan Ferguson

http://www.houstonact.org/HoustonACTmaterials.htm from Judy Rogers http://clem.mscd.edu/~talmanl/MTH1410F07/Pictures_091007/ From Lou Talman (recommended by several people)
 * __Links__:**

Tricia Thompson recommended TIGraphLink: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDetail/us_ti_connectivity_kit.html Alan Bredenforder recommended Graphmatica http://www.graphmatica.com/about.html Celia Rowland and Ben Ward recommended Graph: [|http://www.padowan.dk] Margaret Sloan recommended GSP (URL not provided) Miguel Bayona recommended Equation Plotter: http://mathplotter.lawrenceville.org/mathplotter/mathPage/index.htm Royce Thrower, Kris Adams and Bill Tozzo recommended WinPlot: http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/winplot.html Miguel Bayone also heartily recommended GeoGebra: http://mathplotter.lawrenceville.org/mathplotter/derivatives/derivatives.htm Susan Fergusen recommended some activities she has posted at Scribds: [|www.scribds.com]
 * __Programs and Applications for making cards:__**

Feel free to comment in this wiki about how useful these resources may be for you!