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Strand: FUNCTIONS - Interpret Functions (F.IF)

Interpret quadratic functions that arise in applications in terms of a context (Standards F.IF.4-6). Analyze functions using different representations (Standards F.IF.7-9).
  • Applications of Quadratic Functions
    This collection of resources to teach graphing equations in slope intercept form includes warm-up exercises, a video presentation explaining the topic, practice exercises, worked examples, practice problems, and a review.
  • Applications of Quadratic Functions video
    This video introduces and explains the topic.
  • Carbon 14 dating in practice I
    In the task ''Carbon 14 Dating'' the amount of Carbon 14 in a preserved plant is studied as time passes after the plant has died. In practice, however, scientists wish to determine when the plant died and, as this task shows, this is not possible with a simple measurement of the amount of Carbon 14 remaining in the preserved plant.
  • FUNCTIONS - Interpret Functions (F.IF) - Sec Math II Core Guide
    The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) and educators around the state of Utah developed these guides for the Secondary Mathematics II - Interpret Functions (F.IF).
  • Functions and Everyday Situations
    This lesson unit is intended to help educators assess how well students are able to articulate verbally the relationships between variables arising in everyday contexts, translate between everyday situations and sketch graphs of relationships between variables, and interpret algebraic functions in terms of the contexts in which they arise. Students will also reflect on the domains of everyday functions and in particular whether they should be discrete or continuous.
  • Functions and the Vertical Line Test
    The vertical line test for functions is the focus of this lesson plan.
  • GeoGebra
    GeoGebra is dynamic online geometry software. Constructions can be made with points, vectors, segments, lines, polygons, conic sections, inequalities, implicit polynomials and functions. All of them can be changed dynamically afterwards.
  • Graphing Quadratic Functions
    This collection of resources to teach graphing equations in slope intercept form includes warm-up exercises, a video presentation explaining the topic, practice exercises, worked examples, practice problems, and a review.
  • Graphing Quadratic Functions video
    This video introduces and explains the topic.
  • Intercepts of Linear Equations video
    This video introduces the topic.
  • Introduction to the Materials (Math 2)
    Introduction to the Materials in the Mathematics Two of the The MVP classroom experience begins by confronting students with an engaging task and then invites them to grapple with solving it. As students ideas emerge, take form, and are shared, the teacher orchestrates the student discussions and explorations towards a focused mathematical goal. As conjectures are made and explored, they evolve into mathematical concepts that the community of learners begins to embrace as effective strategies for analyzing and solving problems.
  • Module 2: Structures of Expressions - Student Edition (Math 2)
    The Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary Math Two Module 2, Structures of Expressions is both a functions module and an algebra module. It is designed to extend students knowledge of quadratic functions and to reinforce two big ideas of functions, Functions can be transformed in the same, predictable way and Different algebraic forms have purpose in different situations.
  • Module 2: Structures of Expressions - Teacher Edition (Math 2)
    The Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary Math Two Module 2, Structures of Expressions is both a functions module and an algebra module. It is designed to extend students knowledge of quadratic functions and to reinforce two big ideas of functions, Functions can be transformed in the same, predictable way and Different algebraic forms have purpose in different situations.
  • Module 3: Solving Quadratics & Other Equations - Student Edition (Math 2)
    The Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary Math Two Module 3, Solving Quadratics & Other Equations. The idea that different quadratic forms are useful in graphing is extended in Module 3, Solving Quadratic and Other Equations, when students use different forms of quadratic equations to find the roots or solve quadratic equations of a single variable.
  • Module 3: Solving Quadratics & Other Equations - Teacher Edition (Math 2)
    The Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary Math Two Module 3, Solving Quadratics & Other Equations. The idea that different quadratic forms are useful in graphing is extended in Module 3, Solving Quadratic and Other Equations, when students use different forms of quadratic equations to find the roots or solve quadratic equations of a single variable.
  • Module 4: More Functions, More Features - Student Edition (Math 2)
    The Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary Math Two Module 4, More Functions, More Features, shifts focus to consider piecewise functions, absolute value functions, and inverse functions. Understanding of piecewise functions is built from students understanding of graphs and the stories that they can tell. Students learn to write functions for contexts in which rates change, making a piecewise function.
  • Module 4: More Functions, More Features - Teacher Edition (Math 2)
    The Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary Math Two Module 4, More Functions, More Features, shifts focus to consider piecewise functions, absolute value functions, and inverse functions. Understanding of piecewise functions is built from students understanding of graphs and the stories that they can tell. Students learn to write functions for contexts in which rates change, making a piecewise function.
  • Non-linear Functions video
    This video introduces non-linear functions.
  • Polynomials video
    The video introduces and explains the topic.
  • Representing Quadratic Functions Graphically
    This lesson unit is intended to help educators assess how well students are able to understand what the different algebraic forms of a quadratic function reveal about the properties of its graphical representation.
  • Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square
    This collection of resources to teach graphing equations in slope intercept form includes warm-up exercises, a video presentation explaining the topic, practice exercises, worked examples, practice problems, and a review.
  • Solving Quadratic Equations by Factoring
    This collection of resources to teach graphing equations in slope intercept form includes warm-up exercises, a video presentation explaining the topic, practice exercises, worked examples, practice problems, and a review.
  • Solving Quadratic Equations Using the Quadratic Formula video
    This video introduces and explains the topic.
  • Solving Quadratic Functions by Completing the Square video
    This video introduces and explains the topic.
  • Sorting Equations of Circles 2
    This lesson unit is intended to help educators assess how well students are able to translate between the equations of circles and their geometric features, and sketch a circle from its equation.


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