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Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Evaluating Functions

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Functions as inputs for other functions? After reviewing function notation and how to input values to evaluate functions, class members input functions into functions, essentially determining the composition of functions.
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Linear Relationships

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
There's just something special about lines in algebra. Introduce your classes to linear equations by analyzing the linear relationship. Young mathematicians use input/output pairs to determine the slope and the slope-intercept formula to...
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Graphing

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
So many methods and so little time! The efficient method of graphing a linear equation depends on what information the problem gives. Pupils learn three different methods of graphing linear equations. They graph equations using...
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Interactive
PHET

Function Builder: Basics

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Learn about functions using the function builder app. A fun online interactive has the class conduct an investigation using a function machine. Inputs are pieces of art, and output are transformations of these pieces of art.
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Flipped Math

Modeling with Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Create a graph for anything in the world. Pupils continue to work with graphs that model situations. The learners analyze different graphs to answer questions about the scenario along with finding equations of graphs. Scholars use...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Foxes and Rabbits 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Here is where algebra learners begin to understand that a function is a rule, and for each input there is exactly one output. The commentary gets bogged down with information about the predator-prey relationship between the fox and...
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Sequencer

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Take the first step into graphing sequences. Learners set the starting number, multiplier, add-on, and the number of steps for a sequence. Using the inputs, the interactive calculates and plots the sequence on the coordinate plane. Users...
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Graph Sketcher

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Sketch graphs with the Graph Sketcher. Scholars graph functions on a coordinate plane. An interactive makes it as easy as inputting the function and clicking a button.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's My Function?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students use input / output tables to help them solve algebraic equations. They use patterns and relations to represent and analyze mathematical situations using algebraic symbols.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Input-Output Tables

For Teachers 4th
In this math worksheet, students complete input-output tables for a math operation or rule. This worksheet contains twenty tables that are multi-purpose for various math operations.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Function Tables

For Students 11th
In this function tables worksheet, 11th graders solve 10 different problems that include completing various function tables. First, they read and identify each rule given for the tables. Then, students use the rule to determine the input...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Function Tables and Money

For Students 5th - 7th
In this function tables, money worksheet, students examine 2 different function tables, where they are given input information. Students determine the rule of the function table, then calculate the missing output values. The first table...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Betweenness II

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Read between the curves ... quadratic curves! Young scholars analyze the graphs of two quadratic functions by writing their own function whose outputs are between the two given. They then consider intersecting quadratic functions and...
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Assessment
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CCSS Math Activities

Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 8th Grade Math – Target E

For Teachers 8th Standards
One of several presentations of eighth grade sample items looks at the basics of functions. Smarter Balanced sample items for Target E highlights the way function content shows up on the assessments. The presentation contains eight items...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Monster Frog Function Machine

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary schoolers use a function machine in order to help them look at the relationship between input and output, and to look at the rule for the change. The machine is actually a cardboard box, and it serves quite well for the lesson...
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Lesson Plan
Illuminations

Circumference and Areas of Circles

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Middle and high schoolers listen to a scenario about a puppy and use the scenario to develop formulas in order to find the area of a circle. In this circumference lesson plan, pupils understand how to find the radius, diameter, area of a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Sum of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Collaborative learners will see the geometric addition of functions by graphing the sum of two graphed curves on the same coordinate plane. This task then naturally flows into giving learners the algebraic representation of the curves...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stochastic and Deterministic Modeling

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Explore the difference between stochastic and deterministic modeling through programming. First have the class write algorithms for relatively simple tasks using pseudocode. Use the Python 2.7 program app to simulate Mendel's Pea Pod...
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Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Invertible or Not?

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
What determines whether a function has an inverse? Learners investigate that criteria when they examine values in a partially completed input-output table for two different functions. The task is to complete the table so that one of the...
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Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

The High School Gym

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Learners apply critical thinking skills as they analyze data about the temperature inside a gymnasium during a school assembly. The focus is on representing temperature as a function of time and interpreting input and output values...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Formal Definition of a Function

For Students 8th Standards
Formalize the notion of a function. Scholars continue their exploration of functions in the second lesson plan of the module. They consider functions as input-output machines and develop function rules for selected functions.
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Activity
5280 Math

Aquarium Equations

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Take a look at linear functions in a new environment. A three-stage algebra project first asks learners to model the salt concentration of an aquarium using linear functions. Then, using iterations, pupils create a set of input-output...
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Lesson Plan
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Wordpress

Introduction to Exponential Functions

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
This lesson begins with a review of linear functions and segues nicely over its fifteen examples and problems into a deep study of exponential functions. Linear and exponential growth are compared in an investment task. Data tables are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exponential Growth versus Linear Growth II

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your algebra learners discover that exponential functions, with a base larger than one, outgrow linear functions when the inputs increase sufficiently. Their analysis includes using a graphing calculator to produce tables.

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