Can you give me any tips for a function?” And they’ll help each other too. Then they’ll come to you and say things like, “I’m trying to graph a curve like this. Students will make tons of mistakes, and they just need to try again until they get the line where they want it to be. One of my favorite things about graphing art is that mistakes are expected, and visual feedback is crucial. Once you’ve started graphing on the calculator, the possibilities are endless! You can use an art project to assess almost all graphing skills.
In the parabola graphing project they are also graphing parabolas. In both of these projects students are graphing lines, identifying the domain and range of relations and then using compound inequalities to restrict the domain or range.
