January 4

Desmos Art Functions Card 2018

Link to graph

This task was quite challenging because I have never really had to use my knowledge of math and graphing while applying it to something. Although I had many difficulties making this graph, it was quite fun to see what I can do. Most of the questions that I came across within the process consisted of: how can I make this graph this body part?, which restrictions should be used?, and how do I even do this?!  When I came across these difficulties, I was usually just able to ask my brother or search what a certain graph’s equation would look like. It was also very hard to find the appropriate numbers to use. At first I was able to just plug in numbers and then in each later step, certain restrictions had to match. I remember near the beginning of this course, I was proud of myself for being able to make a smiley face on desmos, but as I pushed my knowledge through this challenge I was able to learn knew ways to translate, expand and reflect graphs to make something incredible. After doing this assignment, I feel like I now have a deeper understanding of how these graphs work.