PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Math in Basketball: Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, students will explore ways that mathematics are used in basketball. Students will explore the concept of a function and will learn to use function notation. Students will recognize, describe, and represent quadratic...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Algebra 2
This Algebra 2 course has interactivity included in every lesson. Lessons include questions with immediate feedback to help you learn along the way, videos, lots of interactives (PLIX and Sims), and Adaptive Practice questions help you...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Quadratic Functions
Explore the world of quadratic functions in this mini-lesson. Learn about the graphs of quadratic functions, quadratic functions formula, and other interesting facts. You can also try your hand at solving a few interesting practice...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Range in Algebra
Explore the world of range in Algebra in this mini-lesson. Provides a definition and examples that help with understanding how to find the range of a function and domain. Includes solved examples and interactive questions with answers.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Graphing a Quadratic Function
A comprehensive guide for learning all about how to graph a quadratic function with definitions, domain and range of quadratic function, vertex form, standard form, how to solve them, solved examples, and practice questions.
Concord Consortium
Seeing Math: Quadratic Transformer
The Quadratic Transformer was developed to support the learning of quadratic functions, and in particular to help you understand the connections between symbolic and graphic representations. Indirectly, it also helps you connect either...
Virginia Commonwealth University
Math Applications: Quadratic Functions
This site provides a brief overview of quadratic functions. It ends with three applications of quadratic functions in excel format. Click on each file to download.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring the Vertex Form of a Quadratic Function
In this activity, you will change the parameters of the function and determine the effects on its graph and its vertex.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Operations of Integers
This set of multiple choice questions asks students to find the intercepts and vertices of quadratic functions. Solutions are included.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Transformations of Quadratics
Series of LearningCheck documents to assess student knowledge of quadratic transformations.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Maximum, Minimum, Increasing, Decreasing
This StudyCard set is a teaching activity that uses real-world contexts to assist students in understanding the concepts of maximum, minimum, increasing, and decreasing.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Old Mac Donald's Pigpen
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Floral Shop Math
Students will create quadratic functions that model revenue collected and profit earned from selling bouquets in a flower shop. The students can use graphing calculators to identify the maximum value for each function. Once they identify...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Y = X 2 Investigation of "C"
Students will explore the effect of "c" on y = x2.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: What Goes Up: Position and Time for a Cart on a Ramp
In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to measure how the position of a cart on a ramp changes with time. They will then determine a parabolic model for the position data using the intercepts.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Standard Form of a Quadratic Equation
In this activity, students explore the standard form of a quadratic equation, y = ax 2 + bx + c. They explore how the x-intercepts (zeros), y-intercept, and vertex are related to the graph of the standard form of a quadratic function.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Investigating the Parabola in Vertex Form (Y = Ax2
In this activity, students investigate the standard form of the quadratic function, y = ax^2 + bx + c. They investigate the changes on the graph of a quadratic equation that result from changes in A, B, and C. They also locate the vertex...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Conserving Energy
In this activity, students will find both the kinetic and potential energies as the cart rolls down the ramp. They will find the sum of the two energies, and show that this value is constant at all times.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Zeros of a Parabola
Students are introduced to an interesting property of parabolas and a method of proving that property using the TI-89 scripts. They then use the CAS of their TI-89 to generalize upon specific results.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Video Tutorial Using the Graph Screen to Factor Quadratics
This tutorial shows you how to factor quadratic functions using the graph screen.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring Families of Functions
This activity provides students an opportunity to discover the similarities involved in shifting the parent functions for absolute value, quadratic, cubic, radical, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Students will also be given the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: St. Louis Curves or Arch? You Pick!
Students explore curve fitting and translations of the parabola.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Storefront Signs
In this activity, students learn to find area and explore the quadratic function. They compare the areas and patterns of squares within a square.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Ratio of Areas
In this activity, students use the CellSheet Application to determine geometric ratios of areas. Students determine the position of the vertices of a square that has all four vertices on the sides of a larger square and has a specified...