Visualizing Partial Derivatives
www.geom.uiuc.edu › ~banchoff › CalculusVisualizing Partial Derivatives One of the most powerful uses of visualization in the early part of a course in functions of two or more variables is in the study of partial derivatives. Students learn that the critical points of a function occur where both the partial with respect to x and the partial with respect to y are zero, but all too ...
Visualizing Partial Derivatives – GeoGebra
www.geogebra.org › m › uc5avdacVisualizing Partial Derivatives. You can grab the blue point in the x-y plane and move it around to see how the partial derivatives change. The red line is the line whose slope computes ; the green line is the line whose slope computes . Both slopes are displayed whenever the corresponding line is.
Partial Derivatives: Geometric Visualization
serc.carleton.edu › sp › libraryJan 06, 2021 · This write-pair-share activity presents Calculus III students with a worksheet containing several exercises that require them to find partial derivatives of functions of two variables. Afterwards, a series of Web-based animations are used to illustrate the surface of each function, the path of the indicated partial derivative for a specified value of the variable and the value of the ...