Calculus Explorations

• Each exploration covers a particular concept or technique in calculus and requires minimal teacher guidance.
• The activities reinforce topics such as Hospitals rule, the mean value theorem, Riemann sums, and the integration of trigonometric functions.
• These activities can be worked with any graphing calculator thats capable of graphing functions, solving equations, and calculating the numerical derivative and definite integral.
• In class, students can work in cooperative groups with a brief follow-up from you, or they can work the problems one at a time as directed-discovery exercises. You can also assign an exploration as homework and follow up during the next class period. An index guides you to additional information about any topic for a given exploration, and solutions are included at the end of the book.