Using visual aids such as flip cards, overhead projectors, or graphing calculators with overhead displays, present students with examples of several quadratic equations of varying levels of complexity and their corresponding graphs. Ask students to make generalizations about the relationship between the form of the equation and the shape of its corresponding graph. Repeat this process with the other types of functions. Using an overhead projector, display the graph or equation of a function. Students may mark under any category a correct feature of the graph or equation which appears on their card.
Students begin with their arms up in a parabola shape.
Observe that students make their parabola move down. Ask them to show you what would happen if the new axis of symmetry was . All students should move sideways, etc. As they play the game, observe the extent to which they can glean the graph or equation features from the given graph or equations. Previous Page Next Organizer 2000 Copyright .