Reading:

• Hughes-Halett 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, and 8.4
• Chain rule intuition
• Gradient Reader
• A revision of Bloom’s taxonomy

Lessons (Asterisk indicates there is a checkpoint quiz in Moodle):

• Derivatives of Basic Functions*: Screencast – Slides
• Product Rule and Quotient Rule*: Screencast – Slides
• Composite Functions and the Chain Rule*: Screencast – Slides
• Computing Partial Derivatives*: Screencast – Slides
• Vectors*: Screencast – Slides
• The Gradient*: Screencast – Slides

Practice problems:

• 3.1.14, 15, 25, 28, 29, 55, 56, 65
• 3.2.2, 9, 12, 20, 40, 43, 48
• 3.3.5, 12, 25, 35, 37, 50
• 3.4.10, 13, 22, 40, 42
• 3.5.2, 8, 24, 26
• 8.4.1, 2, 12
• Answer key

In-Class Activities:

• R notes
• Symbolic differentiation practice I (key)
• Symbolic differentiation practice II (key)
• Gradient reader exercises