2020-12-08T13:56:19-05:00 2014-04-03T15:10:41-04:00 2020-12-08T13:56:19-05:00 Acrobat PDFMaker 11 for Word uuid:81fc8635-6b12-4dca-b8ee-9b8e4ec25fe6 uuid:c65dcba8-5927-4021-948d-301bea7d3e5c xml 13.02.06: Quadratic Functions as a Product of Linear Factors Math Michael Malaney quadratic functions graphing binomials Adobe PDF Library 11.0 quadratic functions, graphing, binomials http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/ xmpMM XMP Media Management Schema internal UUID based identifier for specific incarnation of a document InstanceID URI http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/ pdfaid PDF/A ID Schema internal Part of PDF/A standard part Integer internal Amendment of PDF/A standard amd Text internal Conformance level of PDF/A standard conformance Text Unit Guide Quadratic Functions as a Product of Linear Factors Michael A. Malaney This unit is designed to present quadratics in a somewhat different light, in order to help students develop a deeper understanding of factoring. Traditionally, in my district, quadratics have been taught by first introducing projectile motion with quadratic equations in standard form, and using tables graphs, and the quadratic formula to solve. Then, factored form and solving by factoring is taught in a follow-up unit, but from my experience the students do not develop a deep understanding of what factored form is and how factoring can be used to solve and create graphs. So this unit reverses the traditional sequence, and builds on students’ understanding of linear functions to see what happens when two linear functions are multiplied by each other. The goal is to build a deeper understanding of factoring, and how the zero product property can be used to find the zeroes and the vertex for most quadratic patterns.