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Showing posts with label SP. Show all posts
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Monday, December 9, 2013

SP#6 Unit K Concept 10: Writing a Repeating Decimal as a Rational Number


In this problem, the hardest part is being able to solve it without using a calculator. Decimals and fractions are always confusing. Doing this with the calculator is easier because we can use the math frac button and that's it, but that is not the point of this problem. Here we have to be able to keep working with the fractions and then end with a fraction. The other tricky part of this problem is that we might forget that we have an integer. At the end of the problem we have to plug it into the answer but still keep it as a decimal.

Monday, September 16, 2013

SP#2 Unit E Concept 7 : Graphing Polynomials

This is an example of the graphing of polynomials. In this example we introduce to the graph such things as zeroes (with multiplicities) and end behavior which give a better idea of how the graph should look like.

In this example we did not factor the polynomial because we still don't know how to factorize these but we started from the zeroes so its easy to find the polynomial. With the zeroes and the equation we can find the x and y intercepts. After finding these, we can find the maximums and minimums of the graph which in the the end is enough information for a fairly accurate graph.

Monday, September 9, 2013

SP#1 Unit E Concept 1 : Quadratic Standard Form Equations


This is an example of a standard form equation. This problem is an example of how identifying the x-intercepts, y-intercepts, vertex, axis of quadratics and how all these help in the sketching of the graph.

This problem shows and example of how a standard form equation can be graphed more accurately whenever more details of them are found. Small things such as the y-intercept, the vertex, etc. help the graph be better represented.