Lesson: The Product Rule Mathematics • Second Year of Secondary School

Students will be able to

• understand the concepts behind the derivation of the product rule (although recalling the derivation is not required),
• use the product rule of differentiation to find the derivative, , where is a product of two functions,
• use the product rule of differentiation to evaluate the derivative of a function at a point, , where is a product of two functions,
• understand how to generalize the product rule to find the derivative of the product of three (or more) functions.