Mairead's Reflection:
This activity went pretty well I think. We completed the first page together as a class. When I asked for examples of functions from students surprisingly the first example I got was not symbolic for once! A student said a graph and when I questioned her further she settled on a parabola - I was working on the elmo and so I drew that on there and then we continued to give that function in some other forms (I assumed it was f(x)=x^2+1) I was maybe a little leading on this first page - I gave them the definition of function as it was (More or less) in the book and then we chose of the 4 different ways we had written the function to use f(x)=x^2+1 as our function to answer the questions at the bottom of the page. I then let them off to work on the rest of the questions. We came back together as a class on the elmo and I did the translating from C= to F= (or vice versa) as many of them had just switched F and C. Thinking back on it I don't think I did a good job of highlighting why just switching the F and C doesn't work. On the other questions we had some questions about how to describe the rule and what exactly were the inputs and outputs on some others. Overall I think those conversations went well - I have collected this activity to grade some of it. I'm not sure exactly what I will grade yet.
I graded the whole course activity - most of it was good but having been through all of them I would like to reword the last question. I think we want to ask for input variable or something like that as well as looking for input values.