Blog Posts for Teachers

Classroom Activities

A few favorite area problems

Problems to introduce substitution

Growth charts and numerical derivatives: an activity to introduce differentiation

Reflections on Scope and Sequence

Thoughts on introducing limits

Teaching the MVT (part 1, general reflections)

The MVT and numerical derivatives (an application of the MVT)

Signed area and the definition of a definite Integral

The chain rule: Connecting the Leibniz and “prime” versions.

Visualizations of Major Topics

Visualizations of the Fundamental Theorem

Proofs

An alternative proof of the Increasing Function Theorem