Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Equations as Patterns


A bird rises from a tree and creates a path in flight. If we could graph his path what could we learn? This is one of the main principals of mathematics. There are many tools online to graph patterns as equations. Your challenge today is to graph the following equations and answer the the questions that follow:


1. Graph x + 2 and answer the following questions:

What do you think the 2 does to the equation?

Does the letter x determining the picture on the graph?

2. Graph x^2 -3 and answer the following questions.

How does the x^2 change the picture?

What does the -2 do to the graph?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

IT takes u form one point to the other
yea cause the the graph has y nd x axs the line isnt goin up it has a turn to it

Anonymous said...

i think the purpose of 2 is where the the line crosses the y axis

i think the x does not determine the picture

by jose j. montanez