Today you are going to investigate something called an interactive simulation. It is a tool that will help you visualize how functions work.

Step 1 - Open the interactive simulator, Function Builder in your web browser. You will use it to complete this project. It will look like the image above.

Step 2 - Play with any of the screens on the Function Builder for 5 minutes.

Step 3 - As you discover how the tool works, share your thinking with your group members. You may want to use the following question and sentence stem to guide your discussions:

• What did you try? What happened?
• I tried … and it caused … to happen.

Step 4 - Write down two things you notice or have questions about, and one thing a neighbor noticed that is interesting to you.