Calculus Curve Derivative Lemma

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I'm reading this textbook. I don't quite understand this lemma on page 6, specifically (b) and (c). Let's start with an example provided in the text. enter image description here

I don't understand how the following is derived: $\frac{ds(\theta)}{d\theta} = |\textbf{r'}(\theta)|$

Can we start with that?