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- This small group activity using surfaces combines practice with the multivariable chain rule while emphasizing numerical representations of derivatives.
- Students work in small groups to measure partial derivatives in both rectangular and polar coordinates, then verify their results using the chain rule.
- The whole class wrap-up discussion emphasizes the relationship between a directional derivative in the $r$-direction and derivatives in $x$- and $y$-directions using the chain rule.