Teacher: As a wrap up to our discussions over the last few weeks about functions and their

graphs, take 2 minutes to come up with 2 or 3 things you notice about these two graphs (based
on what we’ve learned, what are some of the behaviors you can identify of the graphs), and 2 or
3 three things you wonder about the graphs (what questions do have about them).

Left Hand Side Graph: Speaker Output Power Ratio vs. Sound Intensity Level
(measured in decibels (dB)). This is the type of graphical representation of data that an
audio engineer or someone involved with the design and setup of audio equipment like
headphones would be working with.

Right Hand Side Graph: Weight vs. Shipping Costs. If you are a small business owner or
an operations manager at a large company like Amazon that is involved in shipping
products on a regular basis, being able to visually represent this data can help you Commented [1]: Nice job connecting these to real life
design computer programs that will automate the calculation of your shipping expenses. applications!

Noticings (left hand side): Domain is 0 to infinity, Range is negative infinity to positive infinity,
continuous function, increasing from (0, infinity), not bounded, no extrema.
Noticings (right hand side): Domain is 0 to 10 lbs. Range $0.00 to $9.00. Not Continuous. Jump
discontinuity. Not bounded. No extrema. Constant on the interval [0, 10).
Wonderings (left hand side): Is this a function? Why doesn’t this graph have any negative x
values? Does this graph go on infinitely in both the positive and negative y directions? What
does the equation of this graph look like?

Wonderings (right hand side): Is this a function? What other kinds of relationships might
produce a similar graph? What does the equation of this graph look like? Commented [2]: I love that you anticipated what
students might say so you can be ready for tomorrow.
Teacher: Similar to the temperature versus months of the year graphs we looked at for
Philadelphia and San Diego the other week, these graphs depict two more of the many
relationships between two quantities that can be represented by the graph of a function. There
12 basic kinds of functions that most relationships can be modeled by. We call these the 12
parent functions, and we are going to look at them all now. Most of them you will recognize from
the work we have done over the last few weeks, but some will be new. This is just a brief
introduction into these functions. We will look at some of them in more depth throughout the
year, and starting tomorrow we will begin looking at the algebraic properties that make some of
these functions behave the way they do. Commented [3]: Great launch!