This document outlines the topics covered in a unit on limits and continuity in calculus. The unit includes topics such as defining limits using notation, estimating limits from graphs and tables, determining limits using algebraic properties and manipulation, exploring types of discontinuities, defining continuity, and applying concepts such as the intermediate value theorem. The goal is for students to understand limits, continuity, and be able to determine limits of functions in various contexts.
This document outlines the topics covered in a unit on limits and continuity in calculus. The unit includes topics such as defining limits using notation, estimating limits from graphs and tables, determining limits using algebraic properties and manipulation, exploring types of discontinuities, defining continuity, and applying concepts such as the intermediate value theorem. The goal is for students to understand limits, continuity, and be able to determine limits of functions in various contexts.
This document outlines the topics covered in a unit on limits and continuity in calculus. The unit includes topics such as defining limits using notation, estimating limits from graphs and tables, determining limits using algebraic properties and manipulation, exploring types of discontinuities, defining continuity, and applying concepts such as the intermediate value theorem. The goal is for students to understand limits, continuity, and be able to determine limits of functions in various contexts.
o Topic 1: Introducing Calculus: Can Change Occur at an Instant
o Interpret the rate of change at an instant in terms of average rates of change over intervals containing that instant
o Topic 2: Defining Limits and Using Limit Notation
o Represent limits analytically using correct notation o Interpret limits expressed in analytic notation
o Topic 3: Estimating Limit Values from Graphs
o Estimate limits of functions
o Topic 4: Estimating Limit Values from Tables
o Estimate limits of functions
o Topic 5: Determining Limits Using Algebraic Properties of Limits
o Determine the limit of functions using limit theorems
o Topic 6: Determining Limits using Algebraic Manipulation
o Determine the limits of functions using equivalent expressions for the function or the squeeze theorem
o Topic 7: Selecting procedures for Determining limits
o Topic 8: Determining Limits Using the squeeze theorem
o Determine the limits of functions using equivalent expressions for the function or the squeeze theorem
o Topic 9: Connecting multiple Representation of Limits
o Topic 10: Exploring Types of Discontinuities
o Justify conclusions about continuity at a point using the definition
o Topic 11: Defining Continuity at a Point
o Justify conclusions about continuity at a point using the definition
o Topic 12: Confirming Continuity over an Interval
o Determine intervals over which a function is continuous o Topic 13: Removing Discontinuities o Determine values of x or solve for parameters that make discontinuous functions continuous, if possible
o Topic 14: Connecting Infinite Limits & Vertical Asymptotes
o Interpret the behavior of functions using limits involving infinity
o Topic 15: Connecting Limits at Infinity & Horizontal Asymptotes
o Interpret the behavior of functions using limits involving infinity
o Topic 16: Working with the Intermediate Value Theorem (IVT)
o Explain the behavior of a function on an interval using the IVT