Objectives
- Students will practice and discuss applications of finding the area bounded by a curve and the x-axis.
- Students will apply this information to finding the area bounded by two curves.
- Students will try to make a connection with how to understand these topics in both IB Mathematics and AP Calculus and on their final assessments.
Vocabulary
- Riemann Sums
- Underestimate
- Overestimate
- Definite Integrals
- Bounded Areas
- Concavity
About the Lesson
Students will use the pages of this TI-Nspire activity to refresh their skills on left-hand rectangle, right-hand rectangle, midpoint rectangle, and trapezoidal Riemann Sums given the bounded area between , the x-axis, and the vertical lines x = 1 and x = 3. For the remainder of this activity, we will call this bounded area .