Guide your students to the discovery that the end behavior of a polynomial function is determined by the degree of the polynomial and the sign of the leading coefficient by using this activity from Holt, Rinehart, & Winston's Algebra...

A complete high school Precalculus Concepts course. Includes 'Related Modalities' for each lesson that teach the same concept in different ways. The text materials follows Algebra II and comes before Calculus or Statistics. The content...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Graphing equations on polar graphs and finding points of intersection.

In this activity, students can use symbolic algebra and graphing to find the extreme values for a polynomial function.