Applications of the derivative

Increasing and decreasing, critical points, maxima and minima and optimization

The Applications of the derivative unit belongs to the Section 8 section of Math Mental and has 11 lessons: increasing and decreasing, critical points, maxima and minima and optimization.

Lessons in this unit

  1. Increasing and decreasing Lesson, 8 questions
  2. Critical points Lesson, 8 questions
  3. Local maximum and minimum Lesson, 8 questions
  4. Extrema on a closed interval Lesson, 8 questions
  5. Practice: sign of f' and extrema Practice, 10 questions
  6. Optimization: rectangular fence Lesson, 8 questions
  7. Optimization: fence by a river Lesson, 8 questions
  8. Optimization: open box Lesson, 8 questions
  9. Optimization: largest product Lesson, 8 questions
  10. Review: applications Practice, 10 questions
  11. Unit test 12 questions

This unit in numbers

8 lessons, 2 practices, and 1 test, with 96 questions in total.

It starts with “Increasing and decreasing” and ends with “Optimization: largest product”.

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