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Curated OER

Your Father

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your learners will explore the idea that not all functions have real numbers as domain and range values as seen in this real-life context. Secondly, the characteristics required for a function to have an inverse are explored including...
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Curated OER

Temperature Conversions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young weather buffs use compositions and inverses of functions to convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin degrees. Then they analyze possible compositions and whether they exist in the real-life context.
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Curated OER

Latitude

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young geologists generate a graph given a table of values from the context of latitude and percent of the earth's surface north of that latitude. The questions in the activity then focus the learners to a deeper understanding of the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Graphs of Compositions

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
It might help when working with this resource to give an example of a composition function. For example, the amount of time it takes to get to work depends on the amount of traffic; the amount traffic depends on the time of day....
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Curated OER

Parabolas and Inverse Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your Algebra learners will explore what equations are functions or not functions and how to alter the domain to produce a possibility for the relations being a function with a limitted domain.
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Illustrative Mathematics

The Parking Lot

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Use the real-world cost of parking a car to demonstrate the properties of a function. The resource describes to learners how much it is to park in a certain lot. It is up to your number crunchers to complete a table of minutes...
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Curated OER

US Households

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners construct and use inverse functions to model a real-world context. They use the inverse function to interpolate a data point.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Accuracy of Carbon 14 Dating II

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The scientific issue of carbon-14 dating and exponential decay gets a statistics-based treatment in this problem. The class starts with a basic investigation of carbon content, but then branches out to questions of accuracy and...
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Curated OER

Triangles Inscribed in a Circle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Are you tired of answers without understanding? Learners can give a correct response, but do they really understand the concept? Have young mathematicians think deeper about linear functions, angles, and formulas in algebra....
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Illustrative Mathematics

Rainfall

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Ideal for use as an introduction to the idea of inverse functions, this activity investigates rainfall as a function of time. Learners use the data displayed in a table of values to analyze the function and its inverse, including why the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Invertible or Not?

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
What determines whether a function has an inverse? Learners investigate that criteria when they examine values in a partially completed input-output table for two different functions. The task is to complete the table so that one of the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Exponentials and Logarithms II

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Learners are given a logarithmic function and its inverse exponential function. The task, which is to graph both compositions of the two functions, uses the inverse nature of exponents and logarithms to generalize about the properties of...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Learners investigate the relationship between the Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales. Given two data points, they construct a linear function to describe the relationship, find the inverse of the function, and make observations...
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eFunda

Engineering Fundamentals: Hyperbolic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete list of hyperbolic functions, plots of hyperbolic functions, and formulas. Includes links to related topics.
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Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Graphing and Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students investigate functions and graphing. Topics examined are lines, circles, graphing functions, inverse functions, and combining functions. Class notes, definitions, and examples with detailed solutions are included. The class notes...
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Inverse Functions: Definition of "Inverse" / Drawing the Inverse

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains the concept of inverse functions, covers some typical exercises, and demonstrates how to find the inverse of a given function.
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Cengage Learning

Cengage: Inverse Trigonometric Functions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a presentation on inverse trigonometric functions. In the presentation students will learn to evaluate and graph the inverse sine function, other inverse trigonometric functions and the composition of trigonometric...
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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Inverse Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The mathematics tutorial examines inverse trigonometric functions. The tutorial consists of explorations and examples. The interactive applet allows students to investigate domain, range, and graphs of inverse trigonometric functions.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Inverse Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Review inverse functions with your students using this TI-83 activity. Students will find inverses of given functions, determine whether the inverse is a function, graph both, and check for symmetry through the line y=x. The lesson...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Inverse Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A site on inverse trigonometric functions. Contains a definition, a chart showing functions and their domains, formulas, and many links.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Inverse Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Over thirty problems present a variety of practice with inverse functions. Solutions are provided with paid subscription.
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University of North Carolina

University North Carolina Wilmington: Inverse Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Take a look at inverse functions from their definition to graphing them. This site also shows you how to find the inverse of a function.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Relations and Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Hotmath provides eighteen practice problems dealing with relations, functions, and their graphs. Each of the practice problems include a step-by-step guide for solving their Algebraic problem.
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University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

University of Saskatchewan: Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site examines the six trigonometric functions from a right triangle point of view. Provides information, examples, and lots of exercises for understanding.

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