emergent math

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Category: quadratics

  • Hot Rod Quadratics: Let’s jump this jump!

    Artifact Hot Rod is one of those movies that’s incredibly dumb the first time watching it. The second time watching it, it’s still incredibly dumb, but it gets funnier with each passing viewing. It’s basically just an excuse for Andy Samberg to to Andy Samberg things for 90 minutes. I’m ok with that. Anyway, this…

  • A 90-yard punt ; Quadratics

    So upon my call last week for quadratic activities, I got a ton of resources in my inbox. I’ll post them soon after I’ve had a chance to look through them. Until then, here’s something I cooked up that could go several different directions, depending on your students’ needs. Artifact This terribly grainy video of…

  • Brainstorming Quadratics

    I’d like to do for Quadratics what we did with Pythagorean’s Theorem. I put out the call on Pythagorean’s Theorem and had come up with several ideas, only a couple of which were by me. So I’m putting up the bat signal again. Except in this case it’s the quadratic formula signal and asking for…