Chain Rule

In this chain rule worksheet, students use the chain rule and substitution to find partial derivatives. They identify total surface area, and find the distance from the origin to the plane. This one-page worksheet contains seven...

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...

How does the chain rule work with the power rule? Using a radical function, the video shows how the chain rule works along with the power rule. The resource continues to simplify the derivative and places it in a familiar form. The...

Break the chain in finding derivatives of trigonometric functions. The short video provides a demonstration of finding the derivative of a trigonometric function where the argument is a function. The 12th video in a series of 31 focuses...

Work on the chain gang. The 11th installment in a series of 31 demonstrates how the chain rule and the quotient rule work together to find a derivative. Using a trigonometric function of a quotient involving exponentials as an example,...

Unshackle oneself from the burden of not understanding derivatives. The first of seven lessons in Unit 3 - Differentiation looks at the Chain Rule. By watching a video, scholars learn when to apply the rule and how to use it to determine...

Unchain the product rule. The 10th video in a series of 31 provides an example of the chain rule in conjunction with the product rule. Using a binomial and a trinomial raised to powers as factors, the presenter works through the process...

Get two functions for the cost of one. The short video is the 16th in a series of 31 video on calculus topics. The presenter works through finding the derivative of a function involving two arccot functions. One of the functions requires...

Keep it on the chains. Pupils work through the steps in the chain rule using the interactive as a guide. Learners identify the two composed functions and their associated derivatives from a set of choices. They continue on to build the...

This Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University provides a table of contents on information and examples on the chain rule.