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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Floral Shop Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Playing With the Transformation Application

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students try to fit a quadratic function to the 200 m world record data using the transformation graphing application.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Finding Parabolas Through Two Points

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students are asked to find the quadratic functions that pass through two given points on a coordinate grid and to describe how their graphs are related. Aligns with F-LE.A.2.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Factorization of Quadratic Expressions

For Students 8th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to factor quadratic expressions.
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Activity
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Algebra Lecture Notes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Richland Community College provides lecture notes to a class on Algebra. It covers a wide array of topics including functions, quadratic equations, inequalities, and much more.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Prodigious! Quadratics and Free Fall Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Uses the movie "October Sky" as an introduction to the study of free fall motion functions. Acts a summation activity to a quadratic unit in Algebra. Solve quadratic equations by graphing, factoring, and the quadratic formula.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Walk the Line: A Module on Linear Functions

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This module leads students through the process of graphing data and finding a line of best fit while exploring the characteristics of linear equations in algebraic and graphic formats. Then, these topics are connected to real-world...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Families of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if Which Function?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students are presented with a graph and asked to identify the functions that could be represented by it and explain their thinking. The task addresses knowledge related to interpreting forms of functions derived by...
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Two Variable Function Pump

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Enter two complex numbers (z and c) as ordered pairs of real numbers, then click a button to iterate step by step. The iterates are graphed in the x-y plane and printed out in table form.
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Activity
Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Topics in Pre Calculus: Basic Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains the graphs of the major mathematical functions. There are example problems solved, problems for the student to attempt, and answers to the student problems. Point this site out to...
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Activity
Curated OER

Zona Land/the Function Institute/poly. Functions/graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Contains an applet that allows you to graph quadratic functions. An example is given and it lets you change the coefficient values.
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Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: The Graph of a Function

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several examples are presented to demonstrate the process of graphing functions, including linear, quadratic, and rational functions.
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Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a tutorial for students in algebra 2 or for those who need a refresher. The site has explanations, definitions, examples, practice problems and practice tests are found covering topics such as linear equations, graphing,...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Comparing Exponential, Quadratic, and Linear Functions

For Students 6th - 8th
Analyze the numerical and graphical representations of functions. This interactive exercise focuses comparing linear, quadratic, and exponential functions and their graphical representations after completing a table to calculate ordered...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analysis: Linear and Quadratic Models

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Modeling of Linear and Quadratic Functions
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Activity
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Graphical Solution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains how graphing can be used to solve (find the roots of) a quadratic equation. Practice problems are included.
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Activity
Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Algebra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides basic instruction on the major concepts in algebra. Content includes a focus on fractions, units of conversion, complex numbers, quadratic equations, factorization and roots of polynomials, solving equations, systems...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparing Linear, Quadratic, and Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Linear, quadratic and exponential functions have different graphs, equations, and characteristics. In this tutorial, compare the shape of linear, quadratic, and exponential curves on a graph, and explore how to identify a function as...
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 2 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 3 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 4 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
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Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 8: Interpreting Relationships in Scatterplots/graphs/tables/equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Interpreting and analyzing linear, quadratic, and exponential models and graphs. Students will use best fit lines to interpret contexts, distinguish whether contexts are linear or exponential functions, use the...