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CK-12 Foundation

Graphs of Quadratic Functions in Intercept Form: Architectural Bridge Challenge

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
There are architectural parabolas all around us! A creative lesson analyzes the architecture of a parabolic bridge. Learners must manipulate the bridge to satisfy given criteria and then answer questions about the dimensions of the...
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Mathalicious

Out of Left Field

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A baseball trajectory and a parabola seem to make the best pair in real-world quadratic applications. Here is a current baseball resource with questions, discussions, and explorations regarding a quadratic function and home run...
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Functions 2

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Demonstrate linear and quadratic functions through contextual modeling. Young mathematicians explore both types of functions by analyzing their key features. They then relate these key features to the contextual relationship the function...
Assessment
Curated OER

Building Functions

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Pupils determine equations that match the graphs of transformations and the parent quadratic function. The resource requires class members to attend to precision and think abstractly.
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Texas Instraments

Getting Started Dilemma

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Get out those thinking caps and apply graphing functions to a real-world problem. Use the TI-83 graphing calculator to evaluate algebraic expressions that are imbedded in a series of real-world scenarios. A great lesson!
Instructional Video3:13
FuseSchool

Transformations of Graphs: Translations

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explore translations of functions on both the graph and equation. Using a quadratic function, a video lesson shows how adding and subtracting values results in either a vertical or horizontal translation. The lesson compares and...
Instructional Video9:44
Curated OER

Graphing with Calculus

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In a problem where you are not given the original function, but rather only three known points on the graph and a few additional pieces of information about when the first and second derivatives are positive or negative, Sal shows how...
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EngageNY

Translating Graphs of Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you know one, you know them all! Parent functions all handle translations the same. This lesson examines the quadratic, absolute value, and square root functions. Pupils discover the similarities in the behavior of the graphs when...
Assessment
Mt. San Antonio Collage

Test 1: Graphing Functions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Graph the night away with all the different types of functions provided in the worksheet. Linear, quadratic, and rational all ask for graphs, domain and range and other key factors about the functions.
Instructional Video7:25
Corbett Maths

Sketching Quadratics

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Sketch the graph of quadratic functions using key features as a guide. After a brief discussion about the key features of a parabola, the video instructor completes several examples showing how to graph a quadratic function. Each...
Unit Plan
EngageNY

Relationships Between Quantities and Reasoning with Equations and Their Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Graphing all kinds of situations in one and two variables is the focus of this detailed unit of daily lessons, teaching notes, and assessments. Learners start with piece-wise functions and work their way through setting up and solving...
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Virginia Department of Education

Quadratic Modeling

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Use a one-stop resource for everything you'd possibly want to teach about quadratic functions and models. Scholars analyze key features of quadratic functions as well as transformations of functions through seven activities....
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CK-12 Foundation

Identification of Quadratic Models: UFO Launch

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Build conceptual understanding of graphs of quadratic functions with an out-of-this-world resource. An interactive lesson allows learners to manipulate a graph that models the launch of a UFO. The lesson focuses on the key features of...
Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Graphing Exponential Functions

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Once you know how to graph y = b^x, the sky's the limit. Young mathematicians learn to graph basic exponential functions and identify key features, and then graph functions of the form f(x) = ab^(x – h) + k from the function f(x) = b^x.
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CK-12 Foundation

Newton's Method

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Use an iterative process to find an approximation of a square root. Pupils use the interactive to find an approximation to find the positive root of a quadratic function with Newton's method. With the graphs, learners position the...
Instructional Video6:38
Curated OER

How Do You Graph a Quadratic Equation in Intercept Form?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Watch this video and find out how to graph a quadratic equation when it's in intercept form! After going through the different forms of quadratic equations, an instructor leads viewers through an example problem. For the example problem,...
Instructional Video7:08
Curated OER

How Do You Solve a Quadratic Equation with Two Solutions by Graphing?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
There are many ways to solve a quadratic equation. Let's check out how to solve a quadratic equation by graphing. But first, let's find the axis of symmetry and the vertex before making a table of values. Write the values as ordered...
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PBS

Toothpicks and Transformations

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students investigate quadratic functions using geometric toothpick designs. They review transformations of quadratic functions-vertical and horizontal shifts, and stretches and shrinks. Students match the symbolic form of the function to...
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Curated OER

Up, Down, Right, Left - Function Families

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore quadratic functions. In this function family worksheet, students examine the quadratic function and the family of functions. They identify the affects of the shape of the parabola and its position on the coordinate...
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Concord Consortium

Intersections I

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
One, two, or zero solutions—quadratic systems have a variety of solution possibilities. Using the parent function and the standard form of the function, learners describe the values of a, b, and c that produce each solution type. They...
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Howard County Schools

Planning for Prom

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Make the most of your prom—with math! Pupils write and use a quadratic model to determine the optimal price of prom tickets. After determining the costs associated with the event, learners use a graph to analyze the break even point(s).
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EngageNY

Modeling a Context from a Graph

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Collaborative pairs develop functions that model a graph from a context using the modeling cycle. They then analyze their function models in order to answer questions about the scenario.
Assessment
Concord Consortium

Quadratic Reflections

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Reflect upon the graphs of quadratic functions. Given a quadratic function to graph, pupils determine whether the graph after a horizontal and vertical reflection is still a function. The final two questions ask scholars to describe a...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Quadratic Equations — What We Know

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Everything you could possibly want to know about quadratic equations, all in one resource. Instructors demonstrate how to translate between different forms of quadratics (equation, table of values, graph, verbal description) and finding...

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