This week we continued expanding our knowledge of derivatives. Most of the new content learned this week centered around the chain rule of derivatives. The chain rule is a formula for computing the derivative of the composition of two or more functions. This adds to our understanding of derivatives and expands our knowledge of what we can do with them. Last week we learned how to take the derivative of multiple part functions in the form of the quotient rule and the product rule. By building up an arsenal of these skills in the form of breaking larger functions into smaller pieces we are making it easier to solve problems involving derivatives. I found that this week I struggled more with this topic than in weeks previous. I believe that this is because I often have a hard time identifying when I may need to use more than just one technique to find the derivative of a function, whether it might be needing to use both the quotient and chain rule together of the product and quotient rule together.
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