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Calculus: Bounded Areas

by Texas Instruments

Objectives

  • Students will practice and discuss applications of finding the area bounded by a curve and the x-axis.
  • Students will apply this information to finding the area bounded by two curves.
  • Students will try to make a connection with how to understand these topics in both IB Mathematics and AP Calculus and on their final assessments.
 

Vocabulary

  • Riemann Sums         
  • Underestimate     
  • Overestimate
  • Definite Integrals       
  • Bounded Areas     
  • Concavity
 

About the Lesson

Students will use the pages of this TI-Nspire activity to refresh their skills on left-hand rectangle, right-hand rectangle, midpoint rectangle, and trapezoidal Riemann Sums given the bounded area between , the x-axis, and the vertical lines x = 1 and x = 3. For the remainder of this activity, we will call this bounded area .