Derivatives and Critical Points - Intro

This unit focuses on using the first and second derivatives to find and interpret the critical points of a function, and will teach the following skills:

• Identify local and absolute extrema
• Sketch curves using derivative information
• Classify local extrema using the first derivative
• Determine intervals of increase and decrease
• Determine intervals where a function is increasing or decreasing
• Solve optimization problems
• Determine intervals of concavity from a graph
• Find critical numbers
• Evaluate polynomial functions