As a review for the semester 1 final, I created a review centered around deciphering clues. My students are not always good about doing work accurately. Some want to just write down an answer to finish. This several day long activity is designed to promote accuracy. There are several parts. [...]
Translations As an informal assessment, I gave my students a Halloween Transformations worksheet to a) keep them off their phones after they finished their chapter tests and b) see how much they remember about or can do regarding transformations with minimal instruction. Most completed the assignment with no issues. Translations Vizual Notes can help students [...]
Reviewing Parent Functions In Pre-Calculus class we dove right in and reviewed five of our parent functions. Screen shots of Reviewing Parent Functions Geogebra Activity are shown below. I will likely rework it next year to include a slider for a variable "b" that reflects across the y-axis and horizontally stretches/shrinks the graph. I made [...]
Translations Translations are one type of transformation. With translations, a pre-image is moved left or right, up or down. It preserves its size, shape, and angle measures. Vectors are used to show how a preimage has moved to the new image. The video below and the accompanying notes sheet can help you understand translation notation. [...]
