Week 1: Square Dance
This puzzle is as follows:
For the unit square shown above with vertices at (0,0), (1,0), (0,1) and (1,1), how many different types of functions can you find that go through at least 2 points?
Teacher notes:
Level of difficulty: Accessible for strong SL and all HL students.
Syllabus knowledge required: Functions and transformations and/or regression techniques.
This would be a good starter which could either be done as a non GDC exercise, or using Desmos regression depending on what syllabus point you intend to support. It would be a useful exercise to support the coursework.
Solutions:
There are clearly an unlimited number of solutions. Here are a few:
You can download a pdf of the problem and the solution here.