Clarifications
Clarification 1: Key features are limited to domain; range; intercepts; intervals where the function is increasing, decreasing, positive or negative; end behavior and asymptotes.Clarification 2: Within the Algebra 1 course, functions other than linear, quadratic or exponential must be represented graphically.
Clarification 3: Within the Algebra 1 course, instruction includes verifying that a quantity increasing exponentially eventually exceeds a quantity increasing linearly or quadratically.
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MFAS Formative Assessments
Students are asked to compare a linear function and an exponential function in context.
Students are given a linear function represented by an equation and an exponential function represented by a graph in a real-world context and are asked to compare the rates of change of the two functions.
Students are asked to provide an example of a nonlinear function and explain why it is nonlinear.