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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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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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Cool Math

Coolmath: Inverse Functions What Are They and What Do They Do?

For Students 6th - 8th
Get the basics of inverse functions in this tutorial.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Inverse Functions the Picture Two Big Things to Know

For Students 6th - 8th
This tutorial illustrates big ideas of inverse functions.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: How to Tell if a Function Has an Inverse Function (One to One)

For Students 6th - 8th
Find out how to tell if a function has an inverse function.
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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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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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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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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Derivative of Inverse Function

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The tutorial explores the derivatives of inverse functions. Examples and practice exercises with solutions are included.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Inverse Functions Composition of Functions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This algebra lesson explains how to do composition of functions.
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Inverse Functions, No Domain Restrictions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good lesson explaining the inverse function and its domain. The lesson has two examples the student can examine.
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Other

Onlinemath4all: Find Values of Inverse Functions From Tables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Presents a problem on how to find the values of an inverse function using a table. The solution is provided.

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