This book comprises a series of activities designed to facilitate learning about the mathematics of the Mathematical Methods Units 3&4 course through the use of CAS technology as implemented on the fx-CP400 ClassPad II.

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The PDF includes the following activities and solutions:

• Activity 1 A function equal to its gradient
• Activity 2 Differentiating exponential functions
• Activity 3 Route 2.7…e
• Activity 4 Growth and decay
• Activity 5 Differentiating trigonometric functions
• Activity 6 The second derivative
• Activity 7 Graphing functions
• Activity 8 Composite functions
• Activity 9 Gradient of composite functions
• Activity 10 Pendulum motion
• Activity 11 Comfy chairs
• Activity 12 Silos’r’us
• Activity 13 What might the function be?
• Activity 14 Are we there yet?
• Activity 15 The fundamental theorem of calculus
• Activity 16 Integrate
• Activity 17 Distance from acceleration
• Activity 18 Tax time
• Activity 19 Rolling dice
• Activity 20 Up or down, the Bernoulli distribution
• Activity 21 Bernoulli trials
• Activity 22 What is log?
• Activity 23 Log laws
• Activity 24 Growth of the WWW
• Activity 25 Key features of logarithmic functions
• Activity 26 Applications of logs
• Activity 27 Derivative of ln(x)
• Activity 28 Slope fields
• Activity 29 Integral of 1/x
• Activity 30 Uniform distribution
• Activity 31 Calculating with continuous random variables
• Activity 32 Non-uniform continuous random variables
• Activity 33 Normal CD
• Activity 34 Continuous distributions
• Activity 35 Simulating random samples
• Activity 36 Sample proportions
• Activity 37 Confidence intervals for proportions
• Activity 38 Looking at limits
• Activity 39 Sine of x on x
• Activity 40 Modelling motion