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CBSE Activity-5 Increasing Decreasing Functions

This math activity aims to help students understand increasing and decreasing functions. Students are instructed to draw two curves on graph paper to represent functions, and draw tangent lines at various points. For one curve, the tangent lines form obtuse angles, indicating negative derivatives and a decreasing function. For the other curve, the tangent lines form acute angles, indicating positive derivatives and an increasing function. Drawing the curves and tangent lines provides a visual demonstration of how the derivative determines if a function is increasing or decreasing.

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CBSE Activity-5 Increasing Decreasing Functions

This math activity aims to help students understand increasing and decreasing functions. Students are instructed to draw two curves on graph paper to represent functions, and draw tangent lines at various points. For one curve, the tangent lines form obtuse angles, indicating negative derivatives and a decreasing function. For the other curve, the tangent lines form acute angles, indicating positive derivatives and an increasing function. Drawing the curves and tangent lines provides a visual demonstration of how the derivative determines if a function is increasing or decreasing.

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OUR OWN HIGH SCHOOL, DUBAI

MATH ACTIVITY

INCREASING DECREASING FUNCTIONS

OBJECTIVE: To understand the concepts of decreasing and increasing functions.

MATERIALS REQUIRED : Colour paper,adhesive, geometry box, trigonometric tables.

METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION:
1. Take a colour paper and draw two perpendicular lines to represent x-axis and y-axis.
2. Draw two shape of curves representing two functions on the paper as shown in the figure.
3. Draw straight lines each of suitable length for the purpose of showing tangents to the curves at
different points on them.

DEMONSTRATION
1. Draw one straight line to the curve (on the left) such that it is tangent to the curve at the point say P 1 and
making an angle a1 with the positive direction of x-axis.
2. α1 is an obtuse angle, so tan α 1 is negative, i.e., the slope of the tangent at P1
(derivative of the function at P1) is negative.
3. Take another two points say P2 and P3 on the same curve, and draw tangents at P2 and P3 making angles a2
and a3, respectively with the positive direction of x-axis.
4. Here again α2 and α3 are obtuse angles and therefore slopes of the tangents tan α2 and tan α3 are both
negative, i.e., derivatives of the function at P2 and P3 are negative.
5. The function given by the curve (on the left) is a decreasing function.
6. On the curve (on the right), take three point Q1, Q2, Q3, and using the other straight wires, form tangents at
each of these points making angles β1, β2, β3, respectively with the positive direction of x-axis, as shown in the
figure. β1, β2, β3 are all acute angles.
So, the derivatives of the function at these points are positive. Thus, the function given by this curve (on the
right) is an increasing function.

OBSERVATION
1. α1 = _______ , > 90° α2 = _______ > _______, α3 = _______> _______,
tan α1 = _______, (negative) tan α2 = _______, ( _______ ), tan α3 =_______, ( _______).

Thus the function is _______.

2. β1 = _______< 90°, β2 = _______, < _______, β3 = _______ , < _______


tan β1 = _______ , (positive), tan β2 = _______, ( _______ ), tan β3 =_______( _______ ).
Thus, the function is _______.

APPLICATION

This activity may be useful in explaining the concepts of decreasing and increasing functions.

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