February 2016, Vol. 109, Issue 6
Connecting Functions in Geometry and Algebra
Scott Steketee and Daniel Scher
Students see that geometric transformations—dilation and translation—correspond to algebraic parameters—m and b—in the familiar equation for a linear function.
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