VIII.  Lesson Plans and Activities for Quadratics

All the lesson plans bleow reflect the experience of expert teachers. They cover the basics of the quadratic and will give any teacher good ideas on what to teach. In an attempt at some vertical alignment, some reflects the lessons of Algebra II. In most cases the lesson plans follow substantially the template below.

Lesson Plans and Activities - Topics

• General quadratics, domain, range, etc
  • Introduction to quadratics
  • Domain, range and significant points
• Factoring
  • Fun with factoring
  • Factoring quadratics equations
• Graphing
  • Graphing quadratics
• Visualizing solutions of quadratics
• Quadratic Functions and Their Graphs
• Quadratic formula/Completing the square
  • Introduction to the quadratic formula
  • Quadratic formula
  • Specializing on the discriminant
  • Completing the square
  • Solving quadratics on the graphing calculator - Part 1 of 2
  • On the quadratic formula - Part 2 of 2
• Solving Quadratics - using the graphing calculator
  • Solving quadratic equations
• Applications
  • Focus on the lighthouse (Key)
  • The travelling cart
  • Standing long jump
  • Trajectories

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