Calculus Lesson Plans
and Work Sheets


Introductory Concepts

A.P. Calculus Syllabus

A.P. Calculus Assignments for Anton's Text

Calculus Course Notes and Daily Lesson Plans

Calculus Tests and Exams

Watch Your Language! -- Calculus Words

Math Blocks -- Calculus Words

Calculus "Definitions"

MATHO Game for the first week of school

Droodle Review of Precalculus Concepts

Techniques for Being Successful in Calculus

Symmetry Activity with the Digital Camera

Algebraic Atrocities -- Review of Algebra

SUDOKU Review Puzzle -- Precalculus Concepts

Emergency Lesson Plans -- Sudoku Puzzles


Limits and Continuity

Hexaflexagon -- Limits

Fractal Sheets -- Limits

Limits -- Artistic Perspective

Limits with Angles of Polygons

Infinite Series

Review of Limits

I Have ... Who Has ... Cards -- Limits

SUDOKU Puzzle with Limits

Continuity -- Table Exploration

Review of Limits and Continuity

Limits -- Blueberry Pancakes

Turvy for Limits & Continuity

Proof of L'Hopital's Rule





E, Pi, Exponentials, and Logarithms

Facts about e

Facts about Pi

Why does e to the i * pi + 1 = 0 ?

Logarithm Cut-out sheet

High-Low Guessing Game

M&Ms Activity (Exponential Functions)

Rule of 72 -- with Logarithms

Logarithm Problems





Derivatives

Derivative Formulas -- with boxes/squiggles

Droodle Review -- Trig Derivatives

The Mathematics Of A Football Kick

Find The Bingo -- Derivatives

"Farside" Droodle Review -- Chain Rule

"Magic Square" Derivatives -- Chain Rule

Derivative Dance

Derivative of a variable to a variable

Graphs of Functions with their Derivatives

Droodle for Derivatives

I Have ... Who Has ... Cards -- Derivatives

Guess My Number Game with Numerical Derivatives

Evaluating Numerical Derivatives (Trick)

Implicit Differentiation (Satellite Orbits)

Age Tee-Shirts (Derivative Puzzle)

Derivative Relationships in a Circle and Sphere

Related Rates -- How Fast Can You Watch?

Related Rates -- Frank S. Key Problem

Worksheet on Related Rates (A Turvy)

Derivative Formulas

Worksheet to Accompany Derivative Formulas

SUDOKU Puzzle with Derivatives

SUDOKU Review Puzzle -- Limits & Derivatives





Curve Sketching

Curve Sketching Instructions

The S-Curve

Review Sheet on Curve Sketching

The Seasons -- Curve sketching

Methods for Finding Critical Points

Determining Concavity





Applications of the Derivative

Class, Take Your Seats! (tangents and normals)

Volume of a Box (Max/Min)

Maxima / Minima Procedures

Worksheet on Maxima / Minima Problems

Do Dogs Know Calculus? (Max / Min)

Snell's Law (Max/Min)

The Longest Home Run (Max / Min)

Class, Take Your Seats! (Max/Min)

Turvy with Applications of the Derivative

Miniature Golf / Billiards (Max/Min)

Maxima/Minima Review Problems

Maxima/Minima Review Problems

Cat Food Can Maxima/Minima Problem

Letter from Carnation about Cat Food Problem

The Math of the Soda Pop Can

The Spider and the Fly (Max/Min puzzle)

Winchester Population Problem

Droodle #20 -- 1st Semester Review





Basic Integration Formulas

Proof By Induction

An Illustration of Proof By Induction

Numerical Word Search (Integral, Summation & Derivative)

Worksheet on Integrals (categories)

I Have ... Who Has ... Cards -- Integration

The Mintegral (Story about the Integral)

The Reason for Plus C

Evaluating Definite Integrals (Trick)

Turvy (#9) for Integration (Basic Integral formulas)

Turvy (#8) for Integration (trig, parts, parametric)

Guess My Number Game with Definite Integrals

SUDOKU Puzzle with Definite Integrals

Slope Fields Teaching Suggestion & Worksheet

Find The Bingo (logs and e^x)

The Pink Panther -- Inverse Trig.

Cookie Recipe (pdf File) -- Definite Integrals





Applications of the Definite Integral

Review Sheet on Area and Integration

Information on Volumes of Solids of Revolution

Teaching Tools for Volumes of Solids of Revolution

YOPLAIT with Areas and Volumes

Volumes -- Dorothy and Kansas Problem

Droodle -- Areas, Arc Length,& Volumes

Turvy with Applications of the Integral

Droodle #21 -- Integration Review





Techniques of Integration

Proof that 0 = 1 (Integration by Parts)

Integration by Parts Trick (Jaime Escalante)

Integration by Parts Acronym

Summary of Integration Techniques

Droodle for Integration Techniques

Really Stupid Integrals

Silly Sammie Seal -- Integration

Silly Sally Seal -- Integration

SUDOKU Review Puzzle -- Integration, Logs, Applications of Derivatives





A.P. Exam Preparation

Tips and Reminders for the A.P. Exam

A.P. Review and Mini Exam Questions

Elaine Cheong's excellent 19 page guide to the AB Exam

A.P. Exam Questions

Droodle #18 -- A.P. Exam Review

Droodle #19 -- A.P. Exam Review

Turvy #15 -- A.P. Exam Review

Droodle #22 -- A.P. Exam Review

Droodle #23 -- A.P. Exam Review





Analytic Geometry

Analytic Geometry Formulas

Droodle Graphs -- Points, Lines, Circles

Special Paper for Graphing Parabolas

Special Paper for Graphing Ellipses

Special Paper for Graphing Hyperbolas

Additional Graph Paper for Graphing the Conics

Reflection Property of the Parabola and Ellipse

Activities with Circles and Parabolas

"Berlin" - Circles, Parabolas, & Inequalities

"Graph It!" - Circles, Parabolas, & Lines

Applications of Parabolas

Applications of Ellipses

Applications of Hyperbolas

Applications of Conics

Turvy #12 -- Applications of Conics

Translation and Rotation of Axes

Class, Take Your Seats -- Analytic Geometry

Analytic Geometry Problems

Droodle #15 with Ellipses

Ellipses (Matching Cut Outs)

Graph Paper for Tests

Eccentricity of the Earth's Orbit





Polar Coordinates

Parabella -- Conics Story

"Starship" -- Polar Coordinates Game

Polar Coordinates Tic-Tac-Toe Game

Conversions between Polar & Rectangular Coordinates

Some Interesting Polar curves





Calculus Vocabulary

Matchboxes Puzzle (1st Semester Words)

Right Angle Puzzle (1st Semester Vocabulary)

Matchboxes Puzzle (2nd Semester Words)

Right Angle Puzzle (2nd Semester Vocabulary)

Scramblegories -- Calculus Words

Calculus Tag-A-Long

Calculus Scrabble -- Review Problems & Vocabulary

Calculus "Definitions"





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