Everything for this course lives on this site, and it rewards being used in a particular way. Five minutes here saves you an hour of wandering mid-semester.
Start where the site starts
The landing page for your section always shows the most recent class — the warm-up, the thinking task, what is due. If you were away, that page is your first stop; if you were here, it is still the fastest answer to “which rule fires first on again?” Older class pages sit right behind it, one per day, so a week away is five short pages read in order.
Three habits that make the site fast
- Search first. Press ⌘ + K (or Ctrl + K) and type any word — “chain rule”, “cross product”, a task name, a phrase you half remember. Search is almost always faster than browsing folders.
- Hover before you click. Rest your pointer on any link — try The Chain Rule — and the page appears in a small preview window. You can check a rule mid-derivation without losing your place.
- Read the backlinks. At the bottom of every page is a list of every page that links to it. On The Derivative, the backlinks show each class and task where that idea earned its keep — a ready-made review list nobody had to build.
Try before you peek
Exercise pages such as Derivative Rules Practice fold their answers away behind a click. That fold is load-bearing: an honest attempt before peeking teaches more than ten confirmations after. Commit to an answer, defend it to yourself, then check — the order is the whole trick.
The short version of the map: class pages record what happened, Concepts pages explain ideas, Exercises build fluency, and your Math Journal instructions live in Portfolios. The full map is How This Site Is Organised; the tour of what pages can do — previews, rendered mathematics, folded answers — is What This Site Can Do.