I use this activity after students have learned to graph trig functions, sine, cosine, and tangent. Students need to understand how to graph transformations including reflections, phase shifts (horizontal shifts), amplitude (vertical stretch), and vertical shifts.

This activity is best for partners as it encourages team work, reinforces use of vocabulary, and facilitates discussions to further understanding of this topic. If you have access to a laminator, the cards will last a lot longer (I’ve been using the same set for years!). I also laminate the answer cards and the students use whiteboard markers to fill out the answer cards.

When they bring up answer cards to me, I will usually tell them one card specifically that is incorrect but they need to figure out what to switch it with. Sometimes if they have a lot of mistakes, I’ll erase the mistakes for them and ask them to return and try again.

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