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Mirin, Alison; Zazkis, Dov – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2020
Much of the education research on implicit differentiation and related rates treats the topic of differentiating equations as an unproblematic application of the chain rule. This paper instead problematizes the legitimacy of this procedure. It develops a conceptual analysis aimed at exploring how a student might come to understand when and why one…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Concepts, Problem Sets