Calculus Resources

Scavenger Hunt - Differentiating logarithms and exponentials

By Chimp-a-roo Maths

Use this Treasure / Scavenger Hunt to practice differentiating logarithms and exponentials. Also practices the product rule, quotient rule, chain rule and rules of logarithms

Instructions

  • Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room
  • Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page.
  • Answers are correct to two decimal places where appropriate
  • A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question
  • Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions
  • There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence

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Calculus - Differentiation - Optimisation (Maximum and minimum points)

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This uses finding derivatives of functions to find maximum and minimum points in the context of practical problems.

For example, a manufacturer wants a cardboard box to have volume of 500 cm^3 but wants to minimise the amount of cardboard used.

PowerPoint with an example

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