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Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Conic Flyer
"This applet allows the user to create graphs of conic sections. Using slider bars, one can manipulate the function to change the constant values and view the effects of those changes."
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Solving Systems With Quadratic Equations: Systems of Conics
In this activity, students will plot the graphs of systems of equations and determine the number of real solutions of the system. Then find the solution of the system algebraically.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Conic Sections
Students can investigate the graphs of conic sections in standard form. Cirlce, ellipse, and hyperbola graphs are included.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Conic Equations
This Learn Check file is a review of writing conic sections given the graph of a conic section. Students are asked to use the graphs to write the equations for a ellipse, circle, parabola, and hyperbola.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Graphing Ellipses
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input information about an ellipse, in one of four forms, and gives you the graph of the ellipse.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Completing the Square: Finding the Vertex
Demonstrates step-by-step how to complete the square to find the vertex of a parabola. Thorough descriptions of each problem.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Two Functions or Not Two Functions:
Students create original artwork using all functions and conics studied throughout the course. Lines and absolute values, conic sections and whatever else they can stick in a y= are combined with some calculator tricks to make works of...