MBF3C Unit 1

Lesson 1  Introduction to Parabolas

Click the Desmos picture on the right to go to the best graphing calculator in the world.  Follow the steps in your workbook to begin using it!  You can download it from the app/play store on your phone as well.  You will love it!

Click this link for online practice looking at properties of parabolas!

Lesson 2     Polynomials and Parabolas

How to Multiply a Monomial x Polynomial (review from Unit 1)

Click this link for online practice multiplying  a monomial with a polynomial!

Multiplying a Binomial x Binomial using FOIL

Click this link for online practice multiplying a binomial x binomial!

Lesson 3     The Greatest Common Factor

Click this link for online practice finding the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) when you are given 2 or 3 numbers.

Click this link for online practice finding the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) when you are given 2 monomials.

The Greatest Common Factor

Click this link to practice finding the GCF when you are given a binomial, from thatquiz.

Click this link to practice finding what goes in the brackets, after you have found the GCF, from thatquiz.

Lesson 4:     Factoring Part II

Factoring Trinomials

(Trinomials where the value of a = 1, and remember, 1 is invisible in this case, and so each trinomial has no number showing at the very front! )

Click this link for online practice Factoring Trinomials!

Click this link for online practice finding Square Roots!

Factoring a Difference of Squares

Click this link for online practice factoring a Difference of Squares!

Lesson 5     This is Why We Learned to Factor! (Solving Quadratic Equations)

How to Solve a Quadratic Equation

(STOP watching this video at 8 minutes and 30 seconds!)

Click this link for online practice Solving Quadratic Equations!

Click this link for online practice Factoring a Trinomial that has a GCF!

How to Solve a Quadratic Equation

(START watching this video at 8 minutes and 30 seconds!)

Lesson 6     Transformations of a Parabola, and Vertex Form

This lesson starts off with a Desmos Activity.  The click the link on the right to go to the Desmos Graphing Calculator!

Understanding Standard Form, Factored Form, and Vertex Form of a Quadratic Equation

Lesson 7 How to Graph a Parabola on Paper!

Using First and Second Differences to Find Out if we have a Straight Line or a Parabola!

How to Quickly Graph a Parabola using the 1-3-5 Step Method

Click this link for online practice Graphing Parabolas from Vertex Form!

You are now done Unit 1!  Congratulations!