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- Contributed By: Isaac Newton
Students will find equations of parabolas from three points on the parabola, and then study what happens to the parabola when one of the points is changed slightly.
Students investigate horizontal and vertical shifts in quadratic, cubic, square root, and absolute value functions
Students practice on graphing rigid and non rigid transformations of piecewise functions. (worksheet)
Students will graph various parabolas and compare the graphs to the parabola y = x^2 . They will determine what type of transformation each parabola undergoes to better understand parabolic equations.
This activity starts with students graphing y equals x squared on the calculator and then moving on to shifting, etc.
Worksheet: Finding the vertices, factoring, solving equations by factoring, midpoint, and system of equations (requires email registration).
This resource is a list sorted by subject and individual lessons that include web pages for students to obtain extra practice.
