Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
differentiation:
- rate of change
- differentiation rules
- higher order, implicit
- applications (differentiation)
Elaboration
- history
- definition of derivative
- notation
- average versus instantaneous
- slope of secant and tangent lines
- power, product; quotient and chain
- transcendental functions: logarithmic, exponential, trigonometric
- relating graph of f(x) to f'(x) and f''(x)
- increasing/decreasing, concavity
- differentiability, mean value theorem
- Newton’s method
- problems in contextual situations, including related rates and optimization problems
keywords
differentiation
rate of change
differentiation rules
applications (differentiation)