I would like to know how to animate a function from a student input. My idea is specifically a response to slide 6 in the attached activity. When the student put in their function notation it simply shows up. Is there a way to animate it upon submit. And even later when there is a combination of transformations to reveal each translation 1 a t a time? (Horizontal shift THEN the vertical shift)
I am somewhat proficient in the animation advice given by Suzanne Von Oy from the desmos videos last year, but it has been awhile…summer was too good!
I can’t copy it either. It has a “depreciated feature”. What I am having trouble with is having desmos incorporate whatever function notation the student puts in and animates the parent function to whatever their input was.
I know how to animate from the “time since submit” with the t_0 approach, it’s having the CL read the student’s specific function notation that I do no know how to code.
Yes, I got it now. The deprecated feature was likely rawExpression, which was used to read the function notation. I found this post by @Daniel_Grubbs that shows a possible solution.
Here is what I have now. The last thing that I need to figure out is how to animate the vertical stretch factor last. If you were to type f(x-3)+2 it will animate the shift right by three then the shift up 2. Any Ideas of how to incorporate something like 3f(x-2)+5 where the stretch by three happens last?
Here it is with the added A3a1. The issue I am seeing is that it shows the vertical stretch right away, and then after 3 seconds it performs another vertical stretch after the shifting.
For example: If you type 2f(x-3)+4 it will stretch it by 2 without it animated from the parent function x^2, then shift it right 3 and up 4. Then it will stretch it again. It looks like by another factor of 2.
So the A3 starts at 1 and transfers to the student input. BUT I came across another issue. I plugged in f(x-100) (As any great student would do) and it skipped the horizontal shift!
The h_1 function is referencing a list that ranges from -10 to 10, so the horizontal shift gets an output of zero if it’s outside that range. You can just make the range of H to be larger numbers, but a shift of more than 10 would place the graph outside the viewing window. You could just make an errorMessage that appears if |h_1|>10.
Sorry for the late response! Thanks for the window tip. It caps out at 10,000 in a list, so I think I’ll keep these slides at bay for now. I’d like to figure out how to let the code handle any crazy input from a student. Right now if they choose a number not in the list it shows an incorrect transformation.
School year got ahead of me. I appreciate all of the help folks! You’ll see more posts from me in the future I’m sure!
I eagerly stole this from Suzanne von Oy (whicked smaht!) … and since then I have been able to create animations based on student input. To start the animation the student submits their response or presses a button and that “timeSinceSubmit” tells the variable t_0 to start moving … and as you can see although t_0 can tick on forever however, the animation in this example will last precisely 3 seconds (denominator in a_1). hope this helps!!
