Standard 1: Develop an understanding for limits and continuity. Determine limits and continuity.

In this lesson students will demonstrate their knowledge of limits, graphing, and exact trig limits evaluated using substitution. The students will play a game in which they evaluate their knowledge of problems in the unit while it serves as a formative assessment for the teacher. The students receive immediate feedback on their work while the teacher works the problems, correcting errors or misconceptions. This lesson gives the student a power review of the concepts in the unit because the timing is determined by the teacher. All students are engaged and focused while playing this game. Giving students access to the PowerPoint of the game after the lesson provides a good study tool for the students.

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Fishery Scientist from Florida State University discusses his new research in deep sea sharks and the unusual behavior that is found when the data is graphed.

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Type: Perspectives Video: Professional/Enthusiast

This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. The text uses the story of Usain Bolt and his quest to reduce his world record in the 100 meter race to raise the question of whether there is a limit to his—or any human's—athleticism. The article uses number series, limits, and convergent and divergent series to prove that, hypothetically at least, a world record will go on reducing beyond any limit. A logistic curve is shown to model the data.

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In this video students are introduced to an algebraic technique for rewriting a rational function in order to find a limit of the function.

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In this video we will find the limit of a function as it approaches positive infinity and negative infinity.

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Here we will explore three more functions, and find their limits as they approach infinity.

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Here we will use algebra to find the limit of a function with radicals as it approaches infinity.

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Here we will find the limit of a function as it approaches positive and negative infinity and results in two horizontal asymptotes.

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In this video we will determine if a limit exists at a point of discontinuity.

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We will use limits to define continuity.

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Le'ts find a limit by factoring a cubic expression.

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Let's look at some examples of limits using various properties.

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This video will demonstrate how to find a limit of a quotient. 

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This video will provide an introduction to the intuition behind limits through graphing.

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This video demonstrates how to determine a limit at a point of discontinuity.

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This video demonstrates how to determine which limit statements are true.

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Determine the limit of a function from the left and from the right of an x-value from graph.

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