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Calculus Choice Board!

Directions: For this assignment you will choose any of the following in order to get
credit. Please make sure to follow the guidelines for every section that is available. There is
no specific “box” you need to choose, it’s your choice, do what you want to do! The rubrics
for them will be below. Also I will consider extra credit if you decide doing 2 of these.

Since we have encountered a number A lot of famous Mathematicians have Writing is not for everyone, so if
of theorems in this class, choose any contributed to what is Calculus you would still like to talk about a
3 theorems from past chapters and today, write a research paper on one famous Mathematician, please
prove those theorems. of these Mathematicians that are create a presentation (either
mentioned in the book or through through Google Slides, Prezi, or
(For those of you who may not know your own research. another online tool) about the
how to start a proof, go to the Mathematician.
following website and read about the (Mathematicians not mentioned in
strategies of proofs: the book had to incorporate (Mathematicians not mentioned in
https://ece.iisc.ac.in/~parimal/proofs/ something to Calculus and they also the book had to incorporate
lecture-02.pdf have to be approved by the teacher!) something to Calculus and they
also have to be approved by the
teacher!)

Optimization Project FREE SPACE!!!!!!!! Lecture Presentation

You must optimize a 3-dimensional You are welcome to do another The way I lecture may not stick to
container. Your container may be in assignment that is not on this choice all of my students, so who is a
the shape of a cylinder (a can), a board, please try to keep into better than me? I know! You guys!
rectangular prism (a box), or consideration that same level of You guys are free to create a
something different such as a cone or difficulty for that assignment. Also, presentation about any topic that I
sphere. Your container should only this has to be approved by your went over in class. You will give
have two measurements, such as a teacher in order to do this lecture to this topic so this
radius and height or a square-based assignment. assignment will be worth more
prism (i.e., you only want to have two points!!!!!!!!!
variables).

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WebQuest- Gottfried Wilhelm Create a Derivative Table! Create an Integral Table!
Leibniz

Some of these assignments may be By now you guys should be able to By now you guys should be able to
heavy on the workload, so please do derive polynomials, trig functions, integrate polynomials, trig
this assignment, it does not require alogarithmic functions, exponential functions, logarithmic functions,
lot of time to complete. This functions and many more. If you are exponential functions and many
assignment will be worth less points still having trouble deriving more. If you are still having trouble
since it is easier. functions, please create a table with integrating functions, please create
at least 15 functions. One column has a table with at least 15 functions.
Assignment borrowed from Teachers to have the original function and One column has to have the
Pay Teachers: then the second column has to have original function and then the
the derivative of that function. second column has to have the
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m/Store/Ilovetoteachkids/PreK-12- NOTE: Use different kinds of NOTE: Use different kinds of
Subject-Area/Calculus\ functions functions

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