This lesson is designed to introduce students to graphing functions and to reading simple functions from graphs. Many of the examples are motivated by a situation described by the graph. This lesson assumes that the students are familiar with information from the Graphs and Functions lesson. These activities can be done individually or in teams of as many as four students.
Teams work best for the story-telling activities.
Allow for 2-3 hours of class time for the entire lesson if all portions are done in class. Lead a discussion on gathering information from graphs. Have the students try to build graphs from several situations using graph paper . Have the students try to build formulas from several situations , and then graph them using Graph Sketcher . This lesson can be rearranged in several ways.