Below is a cut and paste activity that we did as soon as we finished going over the basic key terms of quadratics. For the ROXS column, I tell my students that the acronym stands for Roots, Zeros, X-Intercepts, and Solutions to help them with the vocabulary. Students did extremely well on this activity and in hindsight, I did not know how much I would appreciate adding the factors columns.
Here are some Transformations of Quadratics interactive notebook pages that I used. I really liked these pages because students were able to visually see the transformation and explain what was "happening."
We spent two days covering transformations of quadratics and on the second day, students completed the following Desmos Challenge that was created by MathyCathy and Michael Fenton:
I absolutely LOVED this Desmos Challenge and so did students. If there are any more Desmos challenges similar to this one, please send them my way!
This is all we were able to cover before Spring Break so I knew I had to create a review game when students came back. I ended up making a PPT review game where class periods ended up competing for the most point. The class period that received the most points received a jolly rancher and free homework pass. I don't know about your students, but my students LOVE companions!
The following day, we went over the vertex form in their notebook and completed a Google Slides activity in Schoology. Below is a Google Slides activity that I assigned to students where they had to copy and paste the triangle to the correct location.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this post. If you end up trying some of these activities and foldables, I would love to know!
If you would like to use the activities and foldables, click on the links below:
- Quadratic Key Terms
- Quadratic Key Words Graphic Organizer
- Transformations of Quadratics Foldable
- Transformations Partner Activity
- Google Slides Vertex Form Activity (FILE - MAKE A COPY)
Do you have a link to your Peepin' Quadratics activity? It looks super cute and super fun!
ReplyDeleteI thought It looked fun as well!
DeleteI absolutely love your activities. Thank you for posting your files and sharing. This my first year with this content and you have provided so many ideas. I was wondering if you would mind checking the zeros on your Quadratic Key Words poster. I could be calculating them incorrectly but I have them as something different.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing! I would love to try the Desmos activity shown above and the Peepin' Quadratics review game, but I can't find how to download them. Please let me know how I can use these activities.
ReplyDeleteThe quadratic key terms is so fabulous! It helped some of my students make the connection between the axis of symmetry and the vertex. Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteI would love to download your Peepin' Quadratics slides. Please let me know how I may download them. Thanks so much! All of your work looks great!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your awesome files. You are so talented and they are lucky to have you as a teacher!
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