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Teaching Calculus with Desmos – Webinar recording

 

The Desmos Graphing Calculator is a free tool that can be used on laptops, tablets and phones. 

This 45-minute webinar was recorded as part of a series that looked at how the effective use of Desmos can help to deepen students’ understanding of topics in GCSE and A level Mathematics; in the case of this webinar, we looked specifically at calculus.

These links to pre-made Desmos files will be useful: AMSP Teaching with Desmos links

Chapters

00:00 Introduction 

01:28 Graphing derivative functions

10:18 Exploring tangents 

21:13 Slow plot reveal of derivative functions 

27:33 Limit of the gradient of a chord

30:55 Integration

39:47 Improper integrals

41:04 Using derivatives to conjecture integral function

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    Webinar recording

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    Links to our pre-made Desmos files

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