Function Notation - Substitution Tarsia (including Composite and Inverse Functions)

A Tarsia activity to help students become familiar with function notation f(x), by substituting values into functions, composite functions, and inverse functions. There are 16 pieces to the puzzle - students substitute values into functions and match that piece up to its answer on another card. When completed, the 16 pieces form a square.

To make things a bit more challenging, some functions do not have an answer to match with - these will go around the outside of the completed square.

The 3 functions f(x), g(x) and h(x) that students need to complete the puzzle are in the PNG file - these can be projected onto the whiteboard while students work. Note that I haven’t provided students with the Inverse Functions - students must derive them on their own.

Sadly, I was not able to upload the Tarsia file itself, just a pdf version, so you cannot make any edits yourself.