Ahh.. Transformations..

Class was happily(not so much) started with mental math quiz #5.



For the rest of it Max taught us about TRANSFORMATIONS.

It looked something like this:









Reference functions (also called "parent functions") are, in my own words, the base.. what the function looks like before anything is done to it. If you graph the reference function, then ,in the same plane, graph a transformation to it, it helps to visualize what's actually happening.(example of this below)









These are helpful rules to remember(probably wouldn't hurt to have these memorized somewhere in the back of the ol' nogan)

And finally he showed us a little trick:

-the number of curves in a function can be found easily by minusing 1 from the exponent of x.

For example if the function is y=x^2, it will have (2-1), or 1, curve(s).. and so on, as shown in the diagram above.



That's all for today.. but a reminder to keep up with accelerated math!




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