SL 5.2 Increasing and decreasing functions.
Content
Increasing and decreasing functions.
Graphical interpretation of \(f'(x)>0 , f'(x) =0,f'(x)<0\)
Understandings:
- Increasing and Decreasing Functions
- Determine intervals on which a function is increasing or decreasing
- The First Derivative Test
- Apply the First Derivative Test to find relative extrema of a function
- Strictly Monotonic
Guidance, clarification and syllabus links
- Identifying intervals on which functions are increasing (f′(x)>0) or decreasing (f′(x)<0).