In this section, you'll learn how to take the derivative of a function that's some constant base raised to a power involving a variable.
In this section, you'll learn how to take the derivative of a function that's some constant base raised to a power involving a variable.
Conclude by giving your students these challenges:
A Curious Surface Area by MAA: Give students the problem and allow them to find their own method of solution. Afterwards, show students how they could solve the problem mentally. That is, the front and back faces each add to 1/2, so together, that's 1. Each side face is equivalent to a side of the original cube, so they're each 1, and together, they're 2, so now we're at 3. There are 4 top faces, so there must also be 4 bottom faces, together, that's 8. Adding this to our previous total of 3, we get 11. This problem is easy to solve mentally because you're always keeping a whole number in your head while deducing the next addend.