Good Evening Class! My name is Professor Ledesma and I am subbing in for Professor Little this class. Today we are learning one of the key concepts in Applied Calculus: Derivatives. Derivatives can be challenging for most students, and I am here to teach you that they are not hard if you follows my easy steps:

This is the definition of the Derivative 

Lets understand how the derivative works:

This above chart explains how the derivative works with my four easy steps:

1. choose an interval 
2. find the raw change 
3. make your model (based on the limit) 
4. find the rate of change 

Its that easy, at the end of the day you are trying to find the slope of the line because lines have infinite number of points on the line.

Lets work out a problem that will be helpful to you:

How dies the function f(x)=x^2 change as we move through the continuum? 

Its that easy! Anyone can be great at calculus!