Introduction to the Derivative!
Description:This unit serves to build upon the basic knowledge that scholars’ gained about rates of change during the first unit on limits and continuity. Scholars will further their knowledge of rates of change to understand that the combination of all the instantaneous rates of change along all points of a function combine to what is called the “derivative” of an original function. Scholars will additionally be exposed to both Newtonian and Leibnitz notation of derivatives. Only the basics of identifying the relationship between the graphs of a function and its derivatives will be shown in this unit, as it is further shown in Unit #4.