Advanced functions

This week we're continuing our unit on sketching polynomials and, I have to say, it's shaping up to be one of my favorite units this year. My students have always struggled with math, so seeing them able to sketch these "complicated looking functions" has been pretty awesome.

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Precalculus will be moving beyond their introduction to functions and function notation from Algebra II and into a in-depth development of transformations. We will be applying transformations (translations, reflections, dilations, etc.) to many of the parent functions included in the image above (we will save trigonometry for the Spring!). Understanding transformations is a crucial link between the algebraic form of a function and its graphical behavior. We will spend a considerable amount…

Functions and Graphs

Finding Inverse Functions -- Example 1

This activity to practice graphing rational functions worked so well for my Algebra 2 students. After the notes, my students did this project. It was better and more effective than a worksheet. It would even work for Pre-Calculus students.

Factoring - Quick Reference

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