Activities

Differentiation - increasing and decreasing functions, stationary points


Consider points on a curve:
 
all points shown
function f(x) is
increasing
gradient of tangent is
positive
f '(x) > 0
all points shown
function f(x) is
decreasing
gradient of tangent is
negative
f '(x) < 0
stationary points

function f(x) is
stationary
gradient of tangent is
zero
f '(x) = 0