Greg Savage

I designed this activity as an opportunity for a calculus student to build an intuitive understanding of why the product rule works. While completing this activity, students develop their intuition by exploring a familiar topic (the area of a rectangle). During this activity, students are led to make the following observations: 1. When the length of a rectangle increases, and the width stays the same, the increase in area equals the increase in length times the width. 2. When the width of a rec

This bundle includes a collection of worksheet activities, each of which leads the student along a path to discover a specific differentiation rule by answering a series of questions.

In this activity, students discover the power rule by approximating derivatives of functions and by observing that their answers follow the power rule.

In this activity, students discover the chain rule by exploring a common everyday life situation: ordering food from a restaurant.