This exploration lets Mathletes manipulate functions in order to explore and better understand translating, stretching, compressing and other transformations of functions. Through the Desmos platform, with the added twist of similarity to the board game Battleship, Mathletes can graph functions and see the effects of changing coefficients and exponents and adding and subtracting integers.

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Battleship Scatter Plots

Scatter Plot 1

Sample Solution - Scatter Plot 1

Scatter Plot 2

Sample Solution - Scatter Plot 2

Scatter Plot 3

Sample Solution - Scatter Plot 3