Thing #14 Online Resources Curriki, Thinkfinity, etc.

Using Curriki , Thinkfinity , and other websites I was able to find a number of online resources that with content that can directly benefit my students. Here are three of the resources I found:

http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_IsaacNewton/BuyOnegetXFree has a compact lesson that introduces a practical application of limits at infinity. I can use this brief lesson in Chapter 1 of AP Calculus AB that deals with limits.

http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_torquedellipse/Rationality_0 is a short digital textbook that contains quality examples and practice problems on the topics of rational functions, interval notation, domain, asymptotes, and graphing. I can use this material as part of the summer packet, Prerequisite Chapter, and/or Chapter 1 in AP Calculus AB.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L769 gives the details of a series of lessons designed to help students conceptually understand that the slope of a linear equation is a rate of change. These lessons could be integrated into the summer packet I give my students entering AP Calculus prior to starting the school year.