Desmos Writeup Andre Arjona-Gomez
The basketball desmos was the first one we got to work on class. we basically had to predict where the vertex had to go to see if we would make the basketball into the hoop or not. Once we predicted we had to see if our prediction was correct or not. In my opinion this was a fun piece of work and I had fun working with this. With the example of basketball it made it seem like something more entertainign to work with.
for this section we had to guess where the parabola went to collect all the stars with a marvel. This helped us out by practicing our skills on writing equations. It was hard to do this one because we had to get all the stars and there would be times that we would miss one star by a little bit and end up missing so we had to start over.
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For the second activity we had to pair up with a random class mate that the computer would give us. The point of this one was to guess the parrabola. We had to ask certain questions to our partner to try to guess it. For example we had to ask " Is it concave up or down?" After asking a question the other person had to answer it to see if thy got it right.
On the last section we had to make the parabolla conect to the three dots. This helped us with pracicing with writing equations in vertex form. This was kind of challenging because normally it would be right next to it but it wasnt acuret so whe you would try to fix it it would end up getting further away.
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For this section we had started to learne the mathematical names. Some of the names are, " concave up, concave down, Vertex." We also practiced to draw the parabolas and ow to do them properly.
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