Will he make it? After watching a video of part of a basketball shot, groups create their own videos. Teams record a video of shooting a ball at a hoop and edit it to show only a portion of the shot. Group members determine the equation of the parabola and trade videos to determine algebraically whether other teams made the shot or not.

Concepts

graphing quadratics, quadratic applications, quadratic equations, quadratic functions, video editing, basketball

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the complete Dan Meyer video of shooting a basketball

Classroom Considerations

• The class should be familiar with writing equations of quadratics given a few points
• Requires the ability for groups to shoot and edit short videos

Pros

• Provides links to completed sample videos
• Includes a rubric for scoring the project

Cons

• None

Common Core

MP4 MP5 MP6 HSA-CED.A.2 HSF-IF.C.7.a