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use calculus to prescribe drugs? How do engineers use area, volume, and pressure equations to design dams? Calculus: Understanding Change gives students a powerful demonstration of the critical role calculus plays in our lives. Unit 2: Built by...
use calculus to prescribe drugs? How do engineers use area, volume, and pressure equations to design dams? Calculus: Understanding Change gives students a powerful demonstration of the critical role calculus plays in our lives. Unit 3: Tracking a...
use calculus to prescribe drugs? How do engineers use area, volume, and pressure equations to design dams? Calculus: Understanding Change gives students a powerful demonstration of the critical role calculus plays in our lives. Unit 1: RX For Calculus:...
Unit 8: More on Growing Degree Days: Purpose of Unit: To give more exercises on growing degree days; to give practice in interpreting conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative information from graphs and tables. There are two sets of student pages, the...
Most physical quantities change. The speed of a car changes with time; the size of a tumor changes with the quantity of radiation applied to it; and the price of oil changes as the supply of oil changes. Webster's New World Dictionary defines the word...
Unit 3: Unit Washington Apples: Purpose of Unit: To give some elementary conversion problems associated with apple production; to give some physical interpretations for first and second derivatives, (these problems are found on a supplementary...
Unit 1 : Unit Conversions: Purpose of Unit: To show students a systematic way to work any kind of conversion problem and to teach and review some conversion units. Note: The information below was created with the assistance of AI. 1. Level of...
Unit 10: Growth of Wheat: Purpose of Unit: To provide exercises in ratio and proportion and percentages through interpretation of graphical information. Note: The information below was created with the assistance of AI. Level of Mathematics Target...
This HiMAP Pull-Out Section explores the mathematics behind how a company chooses the size and shape of its product container. Is the can the most efficient shape for the product? Is the container the cheapest way the company can make its product? Tum...
Light bends! Light travels at different speeds through different substances and changes direction as it changes speed. A pole lowered into a pool of water appears to bend. A man standing in waist-deep water appears shorter. In this Pull-Out Lesson, we...
Students in the classroom often hear, "Check your work!" Outside of the classroom, you are also confronted with situations where you check your work or the work of others. At the store, you check to make sure that you receive the correct change; a...
guide with reproducible student exercises and quizzes. Click here to view the videos, or for more information. Calculus: Understanding Change How do doctors and pharmacologists use calculus to prescribe drugs? How do engineers use area, volume, and...
AAA Chemical Inc. operates two chemical plants in the town of Bayou St. Edwards, home of Dixieland State University. New pollution monitoring equipment has shown elevated concentrations of chloroform in the air over the university. These concentrations...
Unit 4: Unit Erosion Problems: Purpose of Unit: To provide exercises in interpretation of visually displayed information; to provide some simple conversion exercises which are appropriate for calculator use; to reinforce the concept of average. Note:...
The purpose of this module is to give students an: 1) appreciation for a natural connection between exponential functions and compound interest; 2) application of the derivative in a non-science situation; and 3) understanding of the terms used in...
An exciting textbook, Precalculus: Modeling Our World develops mathematics through contemporary applications and mathematical modeling to motivate students. Student-centered activities engage students in explorations of important mathematical ideas....