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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 4
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Using the Chain Rule as the Key Link in Deriving the General Rules for Differentiation
Sprows, David
PRIMUS, v21 n2 p189-192 2011
The standard approach to the general rules for differentiation is to first derive the power, product, and quotient rules and then derive the chain rule. In this short article we give an approach to these rules which uses the chain rule as the main tool in deriving the power, product, and quotient rules in a manner which is more student-friendly than the standard approach.
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Equations (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Computation
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