Construct Functions
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Common Core for Grade 8
Common Core for Mathematics
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Examples, solutions, videos, and lessons to help Grade 8 students learn how to construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities. Determine the rate of change and initial value of the function from a description of a relationship or from two (x, y) values, including reading these from a table or from a graph. Interpret the rate of change and initial value of a linear function in terms of the situation it models, and in terms of its graph or a table of values.
Common Core: 8.F.4
Suggested Learning Targets
- I can recognize that slope is determined by the constant rate of change
- I can recognize that the y-intercept is the initial value where x = 0
- I can determine the rate of change (slope) from two (x,y) values, a verbal description, values in a table, or graph.
- I can determine the initial value (y-intercept) from two (x,y) values, a verbal description, values in a table, or graph.
- I can construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities.
- I can relate the rate of change and initial value to real world quantities in a linear function in terms of the situation modeled and in terms of its graph or a table of values.
The following table shows how to construct linear functions from its graph or a table of values. Scroll down the page for more examples and solutions.
Constructing Linear Functions (8.F.4)
Examples:
- For your birthday, you get $100 gift card to a local bookstore. Each week, you treat yourself to a $5 book. Write a function for the situation.
- You own a bakery that makes muffins. The graph below represents the number of dozens of muffins you have (y), as a function of the number of hours since the bakery started work that day (x). Write a function for the situation.
Use Graphs and Tables to Represent Real World Situations and Solve Problems
Example:
The football booster club ordered 7,500 L of water for Friday night’s game. The water sale averaged 150 L per minute. Solve the problem algebraically, numerically, and graphically to determine the amount of water remaining after 45 minutes?
CCSS 8.F.4 - Modeling with Functions
8.F.4-1 - Constructing Linear Functions
8.f.4 Constructing a Linear Function
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Conjecturing About Functions
Grades 6-8 / Math / Reasoning
CCSS: Math.8.F.B.4 Math.Practice.MP2 Math.Practice.MP3
Lesson Objective
Analyze patterns and represent functions.
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