Five Representations

by Henri Picciotto

This can serve as an assessment of many connected understandings.
Activities leading up to this can be found in these locations:: Section 3 of Algebra Lab Gear: Algebra 1 (or other Lab Gear materials); Chapter 5 of Algebra: Themes, Tools, Concepts; Constant Sums, Constant Products; Parabolas and Quadratics

Explain the connections between these representations of the same trinomial.

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formula, graph

Lab Gear, sum and product

Print these images: Five Representations
Make images for your own x²+bx+c trinomial:: Parabola; Lab Gear figure; Sum and product graphs

Related pages on this site:: Geometry-Graphing Connection; Algebra: Themes, Tools, Concepts; Parabolas and Quadratics; The Lab Gear; Constant Sums, Constant Products