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Big Idea
Understanding the characteristics of families of functions allows us to model and understand relationships and to build connections between classes of functions.
Elaboration
- Sample questions to support inquiry with students:
- How do we decide which kind of function to use to model a given problem?
- What do functions and relations look like beyond the visible axes?
- A set of data looks like a parabola, but it is not. What function could be used to model this data?
- What does the number of zeros tell us about a function?
- What connections do we see within the characteristics of a particular class of function?
keywords
functions