Work Smarter Not Harder Calculus Labs for the TI-Nspire CAS

This is the TI-Nspire version of our popular Work Smarter Not Harder for the TI-83/84 calculus lab book. The TI-Nspire is the next step in hand held technology and is a powerful and complex computer algebra system as well as an interactive graphing tool. The labs are designed to give students an understanding and appreciation for the central concepts of both differential and integral calculus. The interactive features of the TI-Nspire make the labs come alive for the student as they can interact with the graphs and immediately see the results of any change in the parameters of the problem. Numeric and algebraic techniques are also utilized to confirm what the user has discovered visually.