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Calculus and Change

This topic is about how changing things move, grow and accumulate.

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Calculus is the mathematics of change: how quantities move, accumulate, stabilise and respond to different inputs.

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Explore this through functions and graph transformations, rates of change, gradients and slope fields, area, accumulation and numerical approximation.

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Look up: the fundamental theorem of calculus

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