A. Hands-on units involving derivatives

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1. Making an Open Box with Maximal Volume

2. Rectangle in an isosceles triangle

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3. Rain Gutter

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4. Shortest Road to Connect Four Houses

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5. A Piece of Wire

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6. More on the Wire Problem

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7. Ball in a Cone

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8. Cone in a Ball

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9. Cone in a Cone

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10. Cube in a Pyramid

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11. Quadrilaterals

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12. Rectangle in a Quarter Circle

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13. How the Area of a Triangle Changes When One Side Gets Longer

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14. Ticket Prices (a word problem)

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15. Privateer problem

16. Cone with maximal volume

17. Shortest ladder problem

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