While browsing through Dan Meyer’s most recent post on great classroom action, I found a link to a picture which put a smile on my face, from the blog Your Poisonous Cousin (cool name):
A high school colleague of mine uses the Dr. Seuss story “The Sneetches” to hook students into a conversation about inverse functions. This AP Calculus Blog has a nice summary of inverses and pictures of our Sneetch friends.
Enjoy the Sneetches with this video, discuss the star-applying machine, and the charlatan who sells its eventual inverse.
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