Secant and Tangent Line Slopes

An applet for investigating a specific question asked by a student about the slope of secant and tangent lines to functions. The question was asked as follows: "Is it true that the slope of the secant line AB is always equal to the slope of the tangent line to the midpoint C (based on x-values)?"

 

Blair Miller

 
Resource Type
Activity
Tags
mean-value-theorem  secant-lines  tangent 
Target Group (Age)
16 – 19+
Language
English
 
 
GeoGebra version
5.0
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