Lab Assignment on Functions

The first of March...the month of the DC 9th Grade College Trip...and lots of cool Math B.

In lab today, you will be working on 2 projects.

(1) Posting comments on the Cases of the Week

First, you are going to evaluate how good the 'pitch' is for the Cases of the Week posted on the blog. Discuss presentation (font color, pictures, etc.), accuracy, writing style, audience, case solving, etc. How well did the blogger answer the lab question and did they follow the Case of the Week format? Make sure the comments you post are constructive, positive and useful.

(2) Working in a group of 3 (with 2 peers), you will be posting information for functions on the blog. Type your post in Word first, and save it to the student server. Your posting should include the following:

*introduction presenting your topic
*important definitions
*important procedures and points
*example problems
*relevant pictures and/or graphs
*problems for other visionaries to try
*summary/conclusion

The topics you have to choose from are listed below. No groups can chose the same topic, so you must communicate with all your peers in lab (since Mrs. Collins has no voice!).

FUNCTION TOPICS:

A. Vocabulary on Functions and Conic Sections, including Examples (in abc order)
B. Types of Functions
C. Models and Graphs to Represent Functions
D. Domain and Range
E. VLT and proving functionality
F. HLT to see if function has an inverse
G. 3 Methods of finding the inverse of a function
H. Relations with Playas and Functions with No Playas
I. Transformations of functions (translations, rotations and reflections)

Happy Blogging!
Mrs. Collins