Stop Memorizing -- Start Understanding Calculus!

This video presents highly accessible, conceptual approaches to limits, derivatives, and integrals — all without relying on formulas. We include Quick Quizzes designed to foster student-to-student dialogue, while also providing teachers with guidance to develop strategies for anticipating common student misconceptions. Throughout, we pair deep conceptual insights with practical teaching approaches, offering unique ways to understand the core ideas of calculus and support meaningful learning in the classroom for students of any age.

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What are Quick Quizzes?
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Quick Quizzes (QQs) are carefully designed problems that allow teachers to easily engage their students in authentic discourse about natural phenomena. To minimize barriers to entry, we focus on systems that require minimal prep time and use mostly readily available materials. This is one video of many across the high school physics curriculum that aims to prepare teachers to engage their students authentically.

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🕰️ Timecodes 🕰️
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Quick Quiz - Photographer
1:55 Quick Quiz - Paper Copy
2:14 Having Students Rate Their Confidence
2:33 Typical Student Responses - Photographer
4:59 Recreating the Race
7:10 Examining All of the Data
10:35 Families of Slopes
16:37 Using Vernier to Walk Graphs
25:36 Ball Thrown Into the Air - What is the Acceleration at the Top?
25:52 Quick Quiz II - Paper Copy
26:03 Typical Student Responses - Quiz II
31:30 Beginning Integrals
35:48 Avoiding Formulas - For Now!
36:50 Alternate Techniques for Integrating
37:05 Quick Quiz III - Who Goes the Greater Distance?
42:18 Using Symmetry
43:25 Weighing Graphs Using a Scale
45:23 Real-World Application
46:04 Theoretical Deep Dive
49:44 Outro

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