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QUADRATICS PORTFOLIO ONE

Refer to the assignment page HERE
Qualities of a Mathematician
Throughout your story, please talk about one of the Qualities youve grown in (refer back to
your journal prompts):
Hypothesizing/Experimenting
Explaining/Justifying
Collaborating
Questioning
Growth Mindset
Finding Patterns
Please include at least TWO different qualities of a mathematician in your analysis. Highlight
these examples with the color corresponding to the specific quality.

Graphing quadratic functions

I can graph quadratics functions because...

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Narrative

This is our latest factoring quadratics

assignment Water Balloon Contest. We
were supposed to graph/find whos balloon
went the furthest and highest in the
competition.
The first thing I did was:
Write down the information
that was given to us in the X Y
boxes. For example they had given
us jens data in a separate sheet so I
wrote down her starting point which
would be 0,0 and ending point 0,8
and started to graph the rest of the
dots to the graph.
After I looked at the story again and found
new information to build a new graph. The
next possible graph was Imps
It had all of the information on
the separate paper. It had all the
coordinates written down so I copied
it down on my X Y table and started
to graph it.
I was really struggling with how to find
maggie's graph
I was really lost when it came
to this graph. I had tried to solve it
by using y=x2 + 17x -42. when I
started I automatically started to get
very large amounts. I asked makai to
see if I was doing it right, he said no.
He showed me how to do the first
couple of ones and after told me to
try. I got them right after he had
showed me the right way.

This was one of the first things we

did with graphing. I had already an
idea about how to solve this
problem. The equation was y = x2 6x - 5. I knew that the first thing I
had to do was use -5 as the x in this
equation. I got x squared , multiplied
6 and -5 and once I got the final
number I plugged it into the
equation and my final answer was
x= 60 in my starting/end point of
the graph.

This is something similar from the

rest of my work. I basically used the
equation y = 3x squared. I started
with -3. I plugged -3 into the
equation and immediately got the
answer. The answer was 22. I kept
on going with the equation adding
-2, -1 , 0,....
My graph ended up looking like a
big U. I also found out that the
vertex is o,o and that 0,0 was the
symmetry as well. During this lesson
I learned exactly what symmetry
was by asking my table mates what
it was.

Factor functions
I can factor because...
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Narrative

This is another way of factoring

quadratics it is very simple the first
thing you do is
you multiply the x by the
x and the x again to the 8
next you multiply the 2x
by x and the 2x by 8 again.
You end up with 2 x squared - 8x -4x
16
that later turns into 2x squared - 12
x 16 because you add the 8x and 4
which equals to 12 x.

This document was actually

homework, but I didn't really
understand how to get the answers.
My friends helped me during free
time and explained to me how to get
it. I didn't understand why the 2 ( a
in section 2) was outside of the
parenthesis. They later on explained
to me why that was and now I know
it is because the 12, 10 , and 2 are
all common factors of 2 so we have
to add the 2 at the beginning of the
parenthesis.

This was one of my first times

factoring quadratics. I was very
confused, I had no idea what to do
or how to solve this equation. I
asked several people if they could
help me and none of them really
explained in a way I understood.
The last person I asked was sammy.
He made me understand how to
solve this equation. What he
basically told me was what two
numbers can you multiply that
would equal 9 (first problem) I said
3. He told me to draw two
parenthesis with 2 number threes in
the beginning. He then told me that
I had to add the variable, and since
there was a 1 leftover you would
write + 1 or - 1.

Timeline:
Tuesday 10/13
- You will gather the three pieces of evidence for graphing quadratics and the three
pieces of evidence for factoring quadratics that you will use for your portfolio.
- You will write a narrative to show your development through these different pieces
of work..
Wednesday 10/14
- You will continue to write your narrative for your pieces of work.
- You will start to determine how your analysis fits into the qualities of a
mathematician.
Thursday 10/15
- You will scan your documents (if you have not already done so)
- You will make sure that your portfolio is 100% ready to present.
Friday 10/16
- You will critique your portfolio with two partners in triads.
- You will use this critique and implement the feedback into your feedback
document for the year.