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Greg Kelly puts together another great slide presentation to demonstrate ways to combine derivative rules to evaluate more complicated functions. This pattern is called the chain rule.  He shows step by step ways to solve these complicated problems.

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chain rule, derivatives, functions

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Calculus, chain rule, derivatives, functions, simple composite function, slope of parametrically defined curves, math
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Grade
11th - 12th
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Math
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For Teacher Use
Number of Slides
16

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