Ideas in this lesson are also related to concepts found in these Common Core State Standards: 1  CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.
Differentiation typically refers to a developmental process when a skill becomes more sophisticated and broken into subsets.
In calculus, a method called implicit differentiation makes use of the chain rule to differentiate implicitly defined functions. For differentiating an implicit function y(x), defined by an equation R(x, y) = 0, it is not generally possible to solve it explicitly for y and then differentiate.