This lesson focuses on Interpreting and analyzing linear, quadratic, and exponential models and graphs. Young scholars will use best fit lines to interpret contexts, distinguish whether contexts are linear or exponential functions, use...

A tutorial devoted to the steps used to graph a quadratic function. Includes tables, graphs, and several sample problems.

Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses the wave function in relation to orbitals and continual waves.

In this task, young scholars are asked to analyze a function and its inverse when the function is given as a table of values. In addition to finding values of the inverse function from the table, they also have to explain why the given...

Learners are shown two tables of data showing the approximate boiling point of water at different elevations. Both data sets can be modeled by linear functions but with different slopes. When the tables are combined, however, students...

Students are presented with a table that shows the populations of foxes and rabbits in a national park over a 12-month period. This is the second Foxes and Rabbits task. In this problem, students must find trigonometric functions that...

Eighth graders work with input values (the year) and output values (the amount of garbage that year) in a table about the garbage produced in the US. They study the table to answer specific questions, state whether it represents a linear...

The goal of this task is to examine some population data for large cities from a modeling perspective. Students are asked to decide if the population data can be accurately modeled by a linear, quadratic, and/or exponential function, and...

For this task, students are shown a table of U.S. population data between 1790 and 1860 and are asked to explore whether exponential functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. The purpose of the task is to...

This task asks learners to analyze a set of data about the height of a basketball for each time it bounces. They choose a model that reasonably fits the data and use the model to answer questions about the physical context. This second...