In this lesson, you'll get familiar with function notation. After that, you'll learn how to calculate and interpret the value of a function at a given point. Also, you'll understand the meaning of a domain and range in a real-world case.
Duration: 30 min
Lesson objectives
- Green
- Students will understand how to use function notation and how to evaluate a function in a given point
- Students will be able to work on word problems related to functions
- Students will understand and state the domain and range of functions that are applied to real-world problems
- Students will graph piecewise functions
Resources
- Exercise lists
- * Recommended
- Stewart's Precalculus 2.1
- * Extra
- Section 15B from Haese Core HL
- Videos
- Khan on function notation
- More on function notation
- This one (function notation and inserting terms with variables into an equation)
- Prof Leonard