The Tortoise and the Hare

Students further develop the work they began in Lesson 1 (making connections between graphs and the functional relationships they represent) in the context of an animal race. In addition to asking students to interpret qualitative features of a function and interpret specific points in context (MP2), this lesson asks students to consider the rate of change (increasing, decreasing, and constant) over given intervals.

By Desmos Classroom

Learning goals: Learning Goals • Interpret the graph of a function in context without an equation. • Interpret points on the graph of a function. • Understand that if the rate of change is positive over an interval, the function is increasing over that interval. If it is negative over an interval, the function is decreasing over that interval.