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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice Problems: Quadratic Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice using your graphing calculator for solving and graphing quadratic equations. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then select the View Solution button, which is located directly under each problem.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyzing the Effects of Changes in "A" on the Graph Y=ax^2 + C

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given verbal, graphical, or symbolic descriptions of the graph of y = ax^2 + c, the student will investigate, describe, and predict the effects on the graph when "a" is changed.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transforming Parabolas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
1. Students will be able to review how to find the vertex of a parabola using a graphing calculator. 2. Students will be able to observe the relationship between the values of a, h and k and the graph of a parabola in vertex form. 3....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Let's Play Ball With Families of Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed for students to use real-time data to generate a family of parabolic graphs. The data set will be generated by graphing the heights of a ball bounce with respect to time. Students will determine the regression...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Fresh Air and Parabolas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson examines a plane crash, and gets students to try to find the location of various pieces of wreckage. This is done using parametric equations which form a parabolic trajectory....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Intersection of a Line With a Parabola

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use Computer Algebra System (CAS) tools to find intersections of linear and non-linear equations. They confirm their answers by graphing the equations on the calculator.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Quadratics Zeros

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Graph parabolas and discover the zeros. Calculate the roots by factoring.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Parabolic Applications

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will analyze a parabola graphed from word problems. Students can use the calculator to find the roots and vertex of the graph to answer questions based on the word problems.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Bouncing Ball

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this experiment, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. This activity investigates the values of height, time, and the coefficient A in the quadratic equation, which describes the behavior of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Old Mac Donald's Pigpen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students solve a standard maximum value problem using the calculator. Students help Old MacDonald build a rectangular pigpen with 40 m fencing that provides maximum area for the pigs. They graph scatter plots, analyze...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How High Will It Bounce?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. They find the relationship between the bounce number and the bounce height. They learn to graph scatter plots, calculate the maximum value...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Standard Form of a Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore y=ax^2+bx+c using the transform graphing application. Teacher calculator is used with Navigator to send device settings, the equation format and initial coefficient values to all students. Worksheet includes all student...