High School · Interpreting Functions

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSF.IF.B.4

For a function that models a relationship between two quantities, interpret key features of graphs and tables in terms of the quantities, and sketch graphs showing key features given a verbal description of the relationship.

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Lessons that teach this standard

• Exponential Growth and Decay Models

  How to build an exponential model from a description, a table or two points, what each parameter means in context, and how to read a growth curve's key features.

• Graphing Quadratic Functions: Vertex, Axis and Intercepts

  How to find the vertex and axis of symmetry of a parabola, why the axis sits at -b over 2a, and what each of the three forms of a quadratic reveals at a glance.

• Even and Odd Functions: Symmetry of Graphs

  Test whether a function is even, odd or neither by computing f(−x), and see the answer in its graph: a mirror image in the y-axis or a half turn about the origin.