Overview:

When studying relationships between quantities, engineers, scientists, and economists often use information about a rate of change of one quantity relative to a second quantity. In this activity, you will see how a function’s rate of change information (in the form of the graph of the derivative) describes many things about the behavior of the function itself.

Materials:

• TI-84 Plus / TI-83 Plus

Activity:

Graphs of Functions and their Derivatives