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	Function Graphing

Activity Overview

This activity focuses on what it means to graph a function, and what the graph of a function means. The following ideas are stressed: the point (a, f(a)) is on the graph of the function y = f(x) any point (a, b) on the graph of y = f(x) satisfies the equation b = f(a) the interpretation of the horizontal coordinate of a point on a function graph as a function input the interpretation of the vertical coordinate of a point on a function graph as a function output

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Download the attached PDF and look over the information on the first two pages. Download and distribute the attached .tns file and Student Worksheet for use during the activity.

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