Derivitive Shortcuts

So I've kept creating my geogebra files after spending two days figuring out how to upload them.  I'm going to use this one next monday for my calculus students.  5 examples showing off the exponential, sum, and constant shortcuts of derivitives.  Thanks to my mentor teacher I've a set of notes that goes over why we would ever want to use these rules and how we came to find them.

Not sure if I will spend any time whatsoever proving those rules but I will bring my calculus textbook just in case somebody wants to see the proof after the lesson.

In other news, I am super pumped about our whole school project as well, it should be pretty awesome but all we have so far is an idea in our heads.  Look out world, here come the student teachers!  I've been super lucky in finding friends in my colleagues and am looking forward to working with them more! Look forward to a report on what we have planned and how it went!

So I've kept creating my geogebra files after spending two days figuring out how to upload them.  I'm going to use this one next monday for my calculus students.  5 examples showing off the exponential, sum, and constant shortcuts of derivitives.  Thanks to my mentor teacher I've a set of notes that goes over why we would ever want to use these rules and how we came to find them.

Not sure if I will spend any time whatsoever proving those rules but I will bring my calculus textbook just in case somebody wants to see the proof after the lesson.

In other news, I am super pumped about our whole school project as well, it should be pretty awesome but all we have so far is an idea in our heads.  Look out world, here come the student teachers!  I've been super lucky in finding friends in my colleagues and am looking forward to working with them more! 

Understanding Tangents as Limits of Secants.

This took way too long to figure out... and yet... I did it.  

Explanation: Export as dynamic webpage, change advanced setting to whatever you like, under advanced/files go clipboard: google gadget, press clipboard.  Copy code to the file that comes up, save it as a file, press publish, then get code, copy the code, put it in blog html, publish to blog.  Ta da!