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Other

Math Centre: Cubic Equations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains what the features of cubic equations are and how to solve them algebraically and by graphing them. Includes practice exercises with answers provided.
Lesson Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this mini-lesson, students will learn about the world of functions. They will explore topics such as how to represent a function, conditions for a function, how to solve a function, types of functions, and various graphs of functions....
Graphic
William Mueller

William Mueller: Families of Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Meet the Function Family! Each member of the family has examples of their graphs and descriptions of the types of real-world situation that produce those graphs.
Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Graphing General Polynomials, Radicals, Rationals, and Piecewise Fun

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides an overview of graphing, giving examples of general polynomial, radical, rational, and piecewise functions. Also includes advice on common mistakes made by students.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Families of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity provides students an opportunity to discover the similarities involved in shifting the parent functions for absolute value, quadratic, cubic, radical, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Students will also be given the...
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Topics in Pre Calculus: Basic Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains the graphs of the major mathematical functions. There are example problems solved, problems for the student to attempt, and answers to the student problems. Point this site out to...
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Curated OER

Zona Land/the Function Institute/poly. Functions/graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Contains an applet that allows you to graph cubic functions. An example is given and it lets you change the coefficients in the function.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: General Quadratics, Cubics, and Quartics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity explores the characteristics of the graphs of quadratic, cubic, and quartic functions. The graphing calculator will be used to generate graphs and derivatives of these functions.
Unit Plan
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Algebra: Recognize the Equations of Common Curves

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students recognize and know the sketches of quadratics, cubics and recipricols including the shape of positive and negative functions and the interpretation of their y-intercepts.
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Algebra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides basic instruction on the major concepts in algebra. Content includes a focus on fractions, units of conversion, complex numbers, quadratic equations, factorization and roots of polynomials, solving equations, systems...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Slope of the Tangent Line (Part2)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students graph the cubic and quadratic functions. They also graph the slope values of the tangent lines for each of the function graphs.