Graphing Functions Practice with Footloose Task Cards (free download)
Included is a description of the task card activity I used, which you can download for free at the end of the post.
Our Graphing Functions Practice
I couldn’t find any functions activities to suit my needs “exactly,” so I decided to make a shorter Footloose task card activity to give the students some extra practice (and the movement that Footloose provides…movement helps keep the students engaged…especially in May!).
I created 15 Footloose task cards for graphing functions. The cards all have the same directions
- “Choose x-values to complete a function table for:_____”
- “Graph the function”
BUT they have different functions to graph.
For example, Card 1 says:
1) Choose x-values to complete a function table for: y = x + 5
2) Graph the function.
The answer grid for this graphing functions activity is actually two pages:
- Answer grid 1 is for students to choose x-values and find ordered pairs by completing a table.
- Answer grid 2 has small coordinate planes, for students to graph the functions.
*note: The coordinate planes on the graphing page are definitely small, and I was a little worried they might be too small, but overall, the students had no trouble with the tiny grids. I had one student (out of 125 students) who asked if he could use bigger graph paper, which was fine. The rest of the students did well with the grids.
Graphing Functions Task Cards Extra Instructions
- Knowing this, they needed to be careful to choose x-values that would result in y-values that were less than 10.
As the students worked, it was interesting to see which students purposely chose negative x-values, to challenge themselves to work with negative numbers (we hadn’t officially studied operations with negative integers), while others stayed with the comfortable positives.
Feel free to download and use it with your students:-)
