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Free high school calculus projects
End of Year Math Project - I can teach __________!
So it is the end of the year. You're burnt out. The kids are burnt out. But you need to review for the Final Exams/End of Year Testing. Here is a great project for your students that will get them engaged and have them reviewing the material without the class getting bored with the same old examples.
In this project, students have just been hired as the new (Insert Subject Here) Teacher at their school! Now it is their job to teach the rest of the class what they need to know for the end of ye
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8th - 12th
Derivatives Board Game Project
In this project, students will develop a board game of their own creation which integrates what they are learning about taking derivatives, and is fun to play!
Download this free rubric for the project, pre-designed for you!
Build into this rubric is a detailed description of the board game project, as well as breaking down the project management into stages.
Optimization Project
This is a poster project for optimization. It's a great way for students to demonstrate what they've learned. Shown are posters that students have made. They were to find a 3-dimensional object (usually a cylinder), take a picture of it, measure its dimensions, and either minimize its surface area or maximize its volume. Attached are the project description and specifications, as well as a scoring sheet. Files are both in MS Word and pdf format.
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11th - 12th
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No Prep Calculus Project - RUBRIC INCLUDED!
If you need an extensive project for HS calculus which is challenging, has real life application and gives you a variety of choice from a website resource, while requiring you to do no formalized prep, look no further! Rubric, instruction, resources are all ready for you, all you need to do is add deadlines to the timeline at the end. Projects of choice are suitable for the AP and A-levels classroom, regard topics of environment, sustainability and technology.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Rational Function Graphs Extension Questions - PreCalculus
This worksheet is used after teaching vertical, horizontal, slant and quadratic asymptotes of Rational Functions. Questions include working backwards (given the graph, write an equation) which includes work with vertical, horizontal and slant aymptotes, x intercepts and y intercepts. There is also a question where the student must work long division backwards for the slant asymptote. There are questions that require writing describing when asymptotes occur and what they look like. Also inclu
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10th - 12th
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AP Calculus Extra Credit Opportunity
Sometimes kids in AP Calculus take longer to learn a concept and need a second chance. This extra credit opportunity provides a rubric for students to create their own Free-Response Question. Students learn better when they apply their knowledge (even if incomplete) to creating and solving their own problems. As they say, teaching is the best way to learn. Students find this extra credit opportunity enjoyable and challenging. Furthermore, it allows the teacher to use the student-generated FR
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Calculus - Driving Distance Project - Rates
This project gives students a chance to experience first hand how approximating areas under a curve can give you a value that is useful in the real world. It also gives them something to refer back to when you are discussing rates.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Project-Based Learning, PBL | High School Math (Calculus) | Rate of Change
Beam Up Your Classroom with Calculus: A Winning Project-Based Learning Experience for Future Engineers!Looking for a captivating Project-Based Learning (PBL) project that seamlessly integrates Calculus with a real-world challenge in the Residential Building Construction industry? Look no further than Scienovate's "Restoring Roofs: Optimizing Beam Design with Calculus" project!This professional PBL curriculum is designed to be more than just another theoretical exercise. It equips students with t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Project-Based Learning, PBL | High School Math (Calculus)
Mission to Mars - Prepping for Launch
This is the first in an ongoing series of activities for a Calculus class. Could also be used in Physics or Engineering. Here is a brief introduction:"It is the year 2120 and the Earth's resources have been drastically depleted in the past 100 years. The president of the United World Council (UWC) has authorized you and your crew to proceed with the Mars mission. You will pilot the most advanced spaceship the world has ever known, the Excelsior! It will carry terraforming equipment and 200
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Calculus - Optimization Problem
This is a Calculus optimization problem that uses maximum and minimum skills. This a great activity that can be done in small groups. This project aligns with Common Core Standards. This an activity that uses math skills in real world context.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Hurricane Tracking Project
Students must research the path of a past hurricane and create the parametric equations for the coordinates. This is a follow-up activity for the Hurricane Tracking activity I also have listed.
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10th - 11th
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Related Rate Project
This project involves two activities for the classroom to help teach related rates in calculus. The activities will take 2 days.
This project has 6 pages (4 for activity, 1 teacher notes, 1 alternate assignment). I use this project in my calculus class after teaching implicit differentiation. This is my introduction to related rates. It is also a great way to use alternate assessment in the calculus classroom.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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IB HL : Technology Practice for Investigation
IBHL Technology Practice for InvestigationA straightforward differentiation assignment designed to help students get used to typing math equations, drawing graphs with technology , and using Excel to perform math calculations.A Model Answer is provided.
Related Rates Project
Students create their own related rates problem with a Thanksgiving/Winter theme.
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11th - 12th
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Parabola Projectile Motion Project
This project is a work in progress. It allows students to go to the gym and measure their angle of release when playing basketball and they can calculate personalized equations for themselves. This is an excellent example of finding zeros and intercepts and there's many ways to solve the problem.
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10th - 12th
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Increasing/Decreasing Intervals Activity
Calculus Increasing decreasing Maximum and Minimum Activity.
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11th - 12th
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Calculus Can Lab (Optimization)
AP/Advanced CalculusOptimization of a can - students are hired as "product analysts" and have to decide if the current can cost effective. Then students need to determine the most cost effective can for a 1L can.
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10th - 12th
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Calculus Optimization Project: Cost, Revenue, Profit
This is a project to use along with optimization and max/min problems in Calculus. In this project the student is creating a report to advise "Laura" who is interested in buying and selling soybeans. A price function is given for the soybeans based on a number of bushels sold along with fixed costs and the price Laura will be able to sell the soybeans. Based on this information the student is to recommend to Laura how many bushels of soybeans to purchase based on the price in order to maximiz
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Calculus Project
Fun project for students to complete after course instruction!
Exploration: Prove the Derivative of Sin(x) and Cos(x).
This is an exploration style lesson. The questions guide the students to the derivatives of sin and cos. They can do this on their own, in a group setting, or guided with you. This does not include practice problems involving the derivatives of sin and cos. Prerequisite knowledge: Area of trianglesArea of sectorAlgebraically solving limitsPractice with the limit definition of derivative.Sin and Cos sum formulas.Knowledge of Squeeze Theorem can help, but it's outlined in the activity.For the chal
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Area Approximation Project
This is a fun way to not only make the kids practice area approximations but it also pulls from prior knowledge of modeling curves with equations and ties in definite integrals.
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11th - 12th
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Related Rates AP Calculus Project
Editable AP Calculus Related Rates Project.
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10th - 12th
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Write a Computer Program (AP Calculus AB or BC)
The students' task in this project is to write a computer program that will find a Left Riemann Sum, Right Riemann Sum, Midpoint Riemann Sum, and a Trapezoidal Sum given a table of values. Their program will also display a graph of the data for each of the Riemann / Trapezoidal Sums. Students may use any programming language they prefer.
Trigonometric Transformations Poster Project
A fun activity/project for student to demonstrate their knowledge of the trigonometric functions and their transformations. Download includes a link to an editable rubric and an example poster
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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