Join fellow educators from the NUES region for a dynamic networking session designed to foster collaboration, spark new ideas, and strengthen community ties. This informal gathering offers a unique opportunity to reconnect with old colleagues, meet new friends, and share insights with peers who understand the unique challenges and opportunities within our region.
Wednesday January 29, 2025 09:45 - 10:45 MST
Soldier Creek
One focus of the AP Pre-Calculus core is the relationship between exponential and logarithmic functions. During this session, we will explore, using tasks and technology, how this inverse relationship can be extended to transformations (vertical and horizontal shifts as well as dilations) of these functions. We will discover why any exponential function is a dilation of any other exponential function and why any logarithmic function is a dilation of any other logarithmic function. Finally, we will unwrap the rates of change of exponential and logarithmic functions to discover why the rate of change for any exponential function is also an exponential function and why the rate of change for any logarithmic function is a dilated rational function. This work serves as a precursor to derivatives of exponential and logarithmic functions in AP Calculus AB and BC.
This will be an overview of my first two years implementing Dr. Liljedahl's building thinking classrooms instructional and assessment framework in my high school math classroom. I will share the good, the bad, the ugly, and all the adjustments i made in year two so you can learn from my mistakes.
