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Activity:
From Secant Lines to Tangent Lines |
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| Description: |
This activity demonstrates one of the many ways Sketchpad can be used in a calculus or math analysis class. Here, students explore the relationship between the slopes of secant lines to a curve and the slope of a tangent line to the curve using Sketchpad's dynamic features. They investigate the limit concept and express the relationship between the slopes of secant lines and slope of tangent lines as a limit statement. |
| Technology Type: |
Sketchpad | |
| Author: |
teacherlink.org--Center for Technology and Teacher Education |
| Language: |
English | |
| Cost: |
Does not require payment for use |
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| Courses: |
PreCalculus |
limits, derivative, tangent line |
| Calculus |
Derivatives analytically, And average rate of change, As the lim. of the diff. quot., Slope of a curve at a point, Tangent line |
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