In this activity, students explore information about a graph based on the first and second derivatives. They learn that a function's derivative is positive when the function increases and negative when the function decreases. They learn that the second derivative is positive when the graph is concave upward and negative when the graph is concave downward.

Additional Tags

applications of derivatives, first derivative, second derivative, graphing relationships, ti, texas instruments

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

HSF-BF.B.3