The following links will take you to some projects which previous participants in our Ap-Calculus workshops created to satisfy one of the requirements necessary in order to receive graduate credit.
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Janet
Newton
Janet's project is about constructing models to help students
visualize three dimensional solids, and how to find the volumes
of these solids.
Patsy
Kahlig
Patsy's project discusses how to find the volume of a pear.
Janet
Shropshire
Janet's project is about calculating average
temperatures and air-conditioning costs.
Mark Lindberg
Mark's project has several worked out examples of optimization problems. In
addition there are several exercises with hints and solutions supplied.
Karon O'Neal has devoloped a project
which teaches how to calculate a limit from various viewpoints, which are tables
of values, graphically, and analytically. The first link below takes you to
sample worksheet, and the second link to a real worksheet