Hi folks, I’ve created this activity which asks students to explore the vertex form of a parabola, with a bit of a review of point-slope form to get them thinking and make connections.
I’ve intended for this to be an introduction, with a lesson to follow.
My goal is for students to explore this and hopefully notice some connections, but not necessarily get it 100%
I’m going to use their responses as a launching off point for diving into this topic.
Some thoughts on where I feedback:
There is some clunkiness to how I’m displaying the functions in the graph, but I’m not sure how to fix that.
I’m not entirely sure on the flow, and wonder if there is some way to get them to consolidate more before shifting. One thought is to perhaps include a sketch page where they can test their knowledge along the way?
I’d suggest moving the expressions into a Note component and using the formatLatex method to clean up the double negatives and such for you. Also keeps the number of screens to a minimum and reduces the disconnect between the visual and the textual you want students to work on.
Thank you, that is amazing! I have never seen formatLatex before, and I was doing all kinds of gymnastics in other contexts to get around it.
In exploring formatLatex, I’ve also discovered a function called patterns and can’t seem to find any documentation on it. Any suggestions on where to start with that?
Much like formatLatex there isn’t much documentation about patterns. There’s a video series @JayChow did on them a while back though it’s not maybe the easiest way to find what you want, but I belive patterns is a work in progress in any event. But yeah, not much documentation there, though searching here will find things.