Monday, February 14, 2011

Some GeoGebra Love


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Inspired by Greg Hitt

Thursday, February 10, 2011

I'm Holding Somebody Responsible For This!

Step 1: Choose values for 'a' and 'c'.
Step 2: Move the 'b' slider from -10 to 10.
Step 3: Select all the points step 2 puts in the spreadsheet. Right click and select "Create list of points."
Step 4: Click on the "Conic through 5 points" tool.
Step 5: Click on 5 of your points generated in step 3.
Step 6: Right click on the resulting function in the algebra window and change standard form
Step 7: Compare this function to the Starting Function
Step 8: Explain to me why I never knew this before.




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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Quadratics Revisited: The Falling Object Model

I keep hoping that I can use this to help kids derive the falling object model. I'm getting close. I exported the video at 6fps so 1/6 second elapses between strobes. I'd like some feedback on this before I roll it out to my students. How intuitive is it to use both applets together?



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Once you have plotted your points, use the FitPoly function. Simply enter "fitpoly[A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,2]" to plot a quadratic function.



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If this proves to be useful, I'll dial it all in and post the still, video and applets for download.