About Function Builder: Basics
Play with functions while you ponder Art History. Look for patterns, then apply what you learned on the Mystery screen!
How to play Function Builder: Basics
Everything is hands-on: drag, click and experiment — the simulation reacts instantly. Play with functions while you ponder Art History.
Questions & answers
- What is Function Builder: Basics?
- Function Builder: Basics is a free interactive simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder) that you can play right in your browser on crumble.lol — no downloads and no sign-up. Play with functions while you ponder Art History. Look for patterns, then apply what you learned on the Mystery screen!
- What can kids learn from Function Builder: Basics?
- It helps kids explore: define a function as a rule relating each input to exactly one output and predictably acting on inputs predict outputs of a function using given inputs compose functions to create a new function determine which functions are geometric transformations.
- What age is Function Builder: Basics good for?
- It is designed for elementary school (roughly ages 5–10) up to middle school (roughly ages 10–14), and curious kids outside that range can absolutely enjoy poking around it too.
- Is Function Builder: Basics free to play?
- Yes — Function Builder: Basics is completely free on crumble.lol and runs fully in your browser on computers and tablets.