Course Overview
Content Overview
Together with this editable text, this course includes online assessments in MyOpenMath (MOM) and written assessments. This text also includes video content.| Course Materials | YES | NO |
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Business Calculus by Dale Hoffman, Shana Calloway, and David Lippman is a derivative work based on Dale Hoffman's Contemporary Calculus. The course covers one semester of Business Calculus for college students and assumes students have had College Algebra. Students will learn to apply calculus in economic and business settings, like maximizing profit or minimizing average cost, finding elasticity of demand, or finding the present value of a continuous income stream. This course package is delivered either in MyOpenMath, or can be imported into your LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, Moodle). This course also contains video examples created by James Sousa (mathispower4u.com).Topic Overview
This course is delivered in 4 modules including a review of functions (no trig) and the following topics:Module 1: Review
- A review of the basic toolkit of functions including transformations, and compositions
Module 2: The Derivative
- Instantaneous rates of change
- Limits and continuity
- Applications of Rates
- Formulas for differentiation
- Second derivatives
- Optimizations
- Applied Optimization
- Tangent line approximation, elasticity of demand
- Implicit differentiation, related rates
Module 3: The Integral
- Definite integrals
- The fundamental theorem of calculus
- Formulas for integration
- Substitution
- Integration by parts and using tables
- Applications of integrals - area, volume and average value
- Applications to business
- Differential equations
Module 4: Functions of Two Variables
- Calculus of functions of two variables
- Optimization
