Technology 
Proficiency 
Name:______________________________
Activity: Exploration with
Desmos and/or Graphing
Calculator  Logarithmic Functions
ISTE Standard
Empowered Learner:
Students leverage technology to
take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning
goals, informed by the learning
sciences. Students:  predict and analyze how
Articulate and set personal
learning goals, develop
strategies leveraging technology
to achieve them, and reflect on
the learning process itself to
improve learning outcomes.
Links to Activity:
Match My Parabola
Marble Slides Exponential
Beginning (3 Points)
The Student:  The Student:  The Student:
Worked through some of the
problems on the Desmos Activity
When:
Topic 2 - Quadratics
Topic 6 - Exponential and
Emerging (7 Points)
Set learning Goal
Was able to translate most of the
graphs on the activity, but did not
complete them all.  graphing calculator to
Reflected on what they learned
throughout the activity  function was transformed
Proficient (10 Points)
Set a personal learning
goal for the lesson
Used Desmos and/or
the graph of the parent
on a coordinate plane 
Reflected on their
explorations with Desmos
or the Graphing
Calculator and came up
with rules on how the
given functions where
translates from their
parent functions. 
 ISTE Standard
Computational Thinker
Students develop and employ
strategies for understanding and
solving problems in ways that
leverage the power of
technological methods to
develop and test solutions.
Students:
C. break problems into
component parts, extract key
information and develop
descriptive models to
understand complex systems or
facilitate problem-solving.
Beginning (3 Points) Emerging (7 Points) Proficient (10 Points)
The Student:  The Student:  The Student:
Was able to do some of the Used graphing technology to test Used graphing calculator
transformations.  their solutions and most of their or Desmos to analyze how
tests on Desmos were accurate but different values of ‘h’ ‘,k’,
The student tested their solutions not all.   and ‘a.’ translated the
on Desmos but failed to get the parent function.
graph through most of the points.  Ex: f(x)=a(x-h)2+k    or 
      f(x) =abx-h+k
  
Tested their solutions on
Desmos slides and were
able to get the graph to
pass through the given
points. 
Can break down the
translated function into
smaller parts and graph
on paper