Function Words
In short: Function vocabulary: 46 terms such as domain, range, slope, intercept, inverse, and asymptote, each defined in plain words with an example read from a graph or table, from 8th Grade through precalculus.
Input, output, domain, range, slope, intercept, vertex, inverse, asymptote, end behavior: the function vocabulary here follows students from 8th Grade through precalculus. Each word is defined in a line or two, then used in a small example based on a table, an equation, or a graph you can sketch.
When a problem says “identify the zeros” or “determine where the function is increasing,” the page tells you what to look for on the graph. Print it to review before a test, or leave it by your worksheet. Explaining each term using a quick sketch is one of the best ways to make the words stay.
46 words on this page, each with a definition, a figure, a solved example and two quick questions.
Function Words: the full list
8th Grade
- Function
- Linear Function
- Nonlinear Function
- Rate of Change
- Slope
- Slope Formula
- Slope-Intercept Form
- Y-Intercept
Algebra 1
- Absolute Value Function
- Arithmetic Sequence
- Average Rate of Change
- Axis of Symmetry
- Compound Interest
- Domain and Range
- Explicit Formula
- Exponential Decay
- Exponential Function
- Exponential Growth
- Function Notation
- Geometric Sequence
- Inverse Function
- Parabola
- Piecewise Function
- Point-Slope Form
- Quadratic Function
- Recursive Formula
- Standard Form of a Linear Equation
- Standard Form of a Quadratic
- Vertex Form
- Vertex of a Parabola
- Vertical Line Test
- X-Intercept
- Zeros of a Function
Algebra 2
- Asymptote
- Change of Base Formula
- Composition of Functions
- End Behavior
- Euler's Number (e)
- Logarithm
- Logarithm Rules
- Multiplicity of a Zero
- Natural Logarithm (ln)
- One-to-One Function
- Rational Function
- Transformations of Functions