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Let's Experiment With Graphs of Functions Using Technology!

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  This learning activity provided by:  
Author: Kristy Lacks
System:Marshall County
School:Douglas High School
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 2336
Title:
Let's Experiment With Graphs of Functions Using Technology!
Digital Tool/Resource:
Let's Experiment With Graphs of Functions Using Technology! Google Doc
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

This learning activity Let's Experiment With Graphs of Functions Using Technology! will be used during a lesson on identifying the effect on the graph of replacing f(x) by f(x) + k, k f(x), f(kx), and f(x + k) for specific values of k using technology, finding the value of k given the graphs, and recognizing even and odd functions from their graphs and algebraic expressions for them.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Mathematics
MA2015 (2016)
Grade: 9-12
Algebra II
34 ) Identify the effect on the graph of replacing f(x) by f(x) + k, k f(x), f(kx), and f(x + k) for specific values of k (both positive and negative); find the value of k given the graphs. Experiment with cases and illustrate an explanation of the effects on the graph using technology. Include recognizing even and odd functions from their graphs and algebraic expressions for them. [F-BF3]

Mathematics
MA2015 (2016)
Grade: 9-12
Algebra II with Trigonometry
34 ) Identify the effect on the graph of replacing f(x) by f(x) + k, k f(x), f(kx), and f(x + k) for specific values of k (both positive and negative); find the value of k given the graphs. Experiment with cases and illustrate an explanation of the effects on the graph using technology. Include recognizing even and odd functions from their graphs and algebraic expressions for them. [F-BF3]

Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 7
Accelerated
22. Identify the effect on the graph of replacing f(x) by f(x) + k, k · f(x), f(kx), and f(x + k) for specific values of k (both positive and negative); find the value of k given the graphs. Experiment with cases and explain the effects on the graph using technology, where appropriate. Limit to linear functions. [Algebra I with Probability, 23]
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Find k values when given the graphs of linear functions or when expressed in the forms f(x) + k. k(f(x)). f (kx). and f (x +k).
  • Use appropriate technology to experiment with these cases to verify the effects of manipulating k values for linear functions.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Linear function
  • Slope
  • y-intercept
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • Linear relationships have input and output values that have an associated graph, including a y-intercept.
  • parallel lines have the same slope but different y-intercepts.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Compare functions with the same slopes graphically while manipulating k values.
  • Explore functions with a calculator or graphing software to develop a relationship between the coefficient on x and the slope.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • Linear functions can shift based on factors other than the independent variable.
  • The shift of a function is not the same as the stretch of a function.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 9-12
Algebra I with Probability
23. Identify the effect on the graph of replacing f(x) by f(x)+k,k·f(x), f(k·x), and f(x+k) for specific values of k (both positive and negative); find the value of k given the graphs. Experiment with cases and explain the effects on the graph, using technology as appropriate. Limit to linear, quadratic, exponential, absolute value, and linear piecewise functions.
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
Given a function in algebraic form,
  • Graph the function, f(x), conjecture how the graph of f(x) + k, k f(x), f(kx), and f(x + k) for specific values of k(both positive and negative) will change from f(x), and test the conjectures.
  • Describe how the graphs of the functions were affected (e.g., horizontal and vertical shifts, horizontal and vertical stretches, or reflections).
  • Use technology to explain possible effects on the graph from adding or multiplying the input or output of a function by a constant value.

  • Given the graph of a function and the graph of a translation, stretch, or reflection of that function, determine the value which was used to shift, stretch, or reflect the graph.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Composite functions
  • Horizontal and vertical shifts
  • Horizontal and vertical stretch
  • Reflections
  • Translations
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • Graphing techniques of functions.
  • Methods of using technology to graph functions
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Accurately graph functions.
  • Check conjectures about how a parameter change in a function changes the graph and critique the reasoning of others about such shifts.
  • Identify shifts, stretches, or reflections between graphs.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • Graphs of functions may be shifted, stretched, or reflected by adding or multiplying the input or output of a function by a constant value.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
ALGI.23.1: Define dilation, rotation, reflection, translation, congruent and sequence.
ALGI.23.2: Identify rotations.
ALGI.23.3: Identify reflections.
ALGI.23.4: Identify translations.
ALGI.23.5: Use digital tools to formulate solutions to authentic problems (Ex: electronic graphing tools, probes, spreadsheets).

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Identify congruent figures.
  • Compare rotations to translations.
  • Compare reflections to rotations.
  • Compare translations to reflections.
  • Recognize translations (slides), rotations (turns), and reflections (flips).

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.A.AAS.12.24 Given a simple linear function on a graph, select the model that represents an increase by equal amounts over equal intervals.


Learning Objectives:

I can identify the effect on the graph of replacing f(x) by f(x) + k, k f(x), f(kx), and f(x + k) for specific values of k using technology.

I can find the value of k given the graphs.

I can recognize even and odd functions from their graphs.

  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
During/Explore/Explain
Activity:

This activity will be used during a lesson on graphs of functions using technology. Students will complete the activity Let's Experiment With Graphs of Functions Using Technology. Students will complete this activity individually or with a partner.

Assessment Strategies:

The activity Let's Experiment With Graphs of Functions Using Technology! can be used to access the student's ability to identify the effect on the graph of replacing f(x) by f(x) + k, k f(x), f(kx), and f(x + k) for specific values of k using technology, to find the value of k given the graphs and to recognize even and odd functions from their graphs.

 


Advanced Preparation:

Students will need to understand the basic vocabulary of functions and graphs. The students will need to understand the basic operations of the Desmos graphing calculator. The Desmos graphing calculator can be introduced right before this activity or may have been introduced prior to this lesson. The teacher may work the first set of problems together on the projector to show the students how to use the Desmos graphing calculator. The teacher can add the activity to Google Classroom for the students to view. The teacher can copy the activity Let's Experiment With Graphs of Functions Using Technology! for the students to write on and turn in.

Variation Tips (optional):

The learning activity Let's Experiment With Graphs of Functions Using Technology! can be extended to allow the students to develop their own transformations of functions. Also, it could be used to show how that as the slope of the function gets closer to 0 from the positive direction how the graph will start to get closer to the x-axis and how that as the slope grows farther from 0 in the negative direction that the graph gets closer to the y-axis.

Notes or Recommendations (optional):

Make sure that you remind the students that as they are copying the graphs that they are careful to ensure that the individual points on the graphs in the calculator are the same as the points on their graphs.

  Keywords and Search Tags  
Keywords and Search Tags: even functions, functions, odd functions, technology, transition of functions