Building Bridges: Supporting Student Learning in Calculus
April Strom
Executive Summary
The goal of the Building Bridges: Supporting Student Learning in Calculus project was to create 10 instructional videos, with wrap-around narrative, for Calculus 1 and Calculus 2 that can be used to support students in all online, hybrid, and in-person courses at Chandler-Gilbert CC. This project extends the previous work in creating exceptional instructional videos that began in 2019. After all videos were uploaded on YouTube, they were then embedded in Google Slides with wrap-around narrative to introduce and extend relevant mathematical content. The Google Slides were then embedded into our Canvas Calculus 1-2 course shells so that all Calculus 1-2 instructors (including adjunct faculty) can copy over to their course(s) and use with all of their students.
Final Product: Building Bridges: Supporting Student Learning in Calculus
Videos include:
- Interpreting the Derivative Example
- Making Sense of Concavity
- Power Rule Example 1
- Power Rule Example 2
- Product Rule Example 1
- Product Rule Example 2
- Quotient Rule Example 1
- Quotient Rule Example 2
- Graphing the Original Function from the Derivatives
- Graphing the Derivative Function
- Thinking About Area: Setting Up the Car A and Car B Problem
- Thinking About Area: Working through the Car A and Car B Problem
Slides include:
- Derivative Interpretations & Limit Definition
- The Second Derivative, Concavity, Continuity & Differentiability
- Rules of Differentiation Power & Exponential Rules
- Rules of Differentiation (Product, Quotient, Trig Rules
- Known Cross Sections and the Disk Method
Contact Information
April Strom: april.strom@cgc.edu
