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Temperature Conversions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young weather buffs use compositions and inverses of functions to convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin degrees. Then they analyze possible compositions and whether they exist in the real-life context.
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Latitude

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young geologists generate a graph given a table of values from the context of latitude and percent of the earth's surface north of that latitude. The questions in the activity then focus the learners to a deeper understanding of the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Accuracy of Carbon 14 Dating II

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The scientific issue of carbon-14 dating and exponential decay gets a statistics-based treatment in this problem. The class starts with a basic investigation of carbon content, but then branches out to questions of accuracy and...
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Curated OER

Your Father

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your learners will explore the idea that not all functions have real numbers as domain and range values as seen in this real-life context. Secondly, the characteristics required for a function to have an inverse are explored including...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Graphs of Compositions

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
It might help when working with this resource to give an example of a composition function. For example, the amount of time it takes to get to work depends on the amount of traffic; the amount traffic depends on the time of day....
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Curated OER

US Households

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners construct and use inverse functions to model a real-world context. They use the inverse function to interpolate a data point.
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Curated OER

Parabolas and Inverse Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your Algebra learners will explore what equations are functions or not functions and how to alter the domain to produce a possibility for the relations being a function with a limitted domain.
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Illustrative Mathematics

The Parking Lot

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Use the real-world cost of parking a car to demonstrate the properties of a function. The resource describes to learners how much it is to park in a certain lot. It is up to your number crunchers to complete a table of minutes...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Learners investigate the relationship between the Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales. Given two data points, they construct a linear function to describe the relationship, find the inverse of the function, and make observations...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Exponentials and Logarithms II

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Learners are given a logarithmic function and its inverse exponential function. The task, which is to graph both compositions of the two functions, uses the inverse nature of exponents and logarithms to generalize about the properties of...
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Curated OER

Triangles Inscribed in a Circle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Are you tired of answers without understanding? Learners can give a correct response, but do they really understand the concept? Have young mathematicians think deeper about linear functions, angles, and formulas in algebra....
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Illustrative Mathematics

Rainfall

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Ideal for use as an introduction to the idea of inverse functions, this activity investigates rainfall as a function of time. Learners use the data displayed in a table of values to analyze the function and its inverse, including why the...
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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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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Inverse Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The mathematics tutorial examines inverse trigonometric functions. The tutorial consists of explorations and examples. The interactive applet allows students to investigate domain, range, and graphs of inverse trigonometric functions.
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Cengage Learning

Cengage: Inverse Trigonometric Functions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a presentation on inverse trigonometric functions. In the presentation students will learn to evaluate and graph the inverse sine function, other inverse trigonometric functions and the composition of trigonometric...
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Inverse Functions Composition of Functions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This algebra lesson explains how to do composition of functions.
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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Solve Inverse Trigonometric Functions Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The free mathematics tutorial investigates solving inverse trigonometric functions. The tutorial consists of examples with solutions, theorems, and practice exercises.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Inverse Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Sixteen problems present a variety of practice working with inverse trigonometric functions. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View...
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Inverse Hyperbolic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial shows step by step how the inverse of the hyperbolc cosine function is derived.
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University of North Carolina

University North Carolina Wilmington: Inverse Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Take a look at inverse functions from their definition to graphing them. This site also shows you how to find the inverse of a function.
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: An Approach to Calculus: Derivatives of Inverse Trig Fx

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains how to find the derivatives of the six inverse trigonometric functions. There are example problems solved, problems for the student to attempt, and answers to the student problems....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Functions, Relations, and Inverses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set of questions pertains to definition of functions, relations, inverses, and composition. Questions are multiple choice, true/false, and short answer. Solutions and explanations are included.
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eFunda

Engineering Fundamentals: Hyperbolic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete list of hyperbolic functions, plots of hyperbolic functions, and formulas. Includes links to related topics.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Relations and Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Hotmath provides eighteen practice problems dealing with relations, functions, and their graphs. Each of the practice problems include a step-by-step guide for solving their Algebraic problem.