Unit 1 Khan Academy Activity: Pre-Calculus B

Conic Sections
Objective: Students will identify the center, major and minor radii,
and major and major and minor axis of an ellipse given a graph.

Standard: CCSS Math Content HSG-GPE.A.3

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● Ms. Perez: aperez@sdvirtualschools.com or
● Mrs. Kajanus mkajanus@sdvirtualschools.com

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Rubric: Total: 20 points

Khan Academy Practice 10 points
Score

Screenshot 3 points

Explain your Thinking 5 points (3 points for explanation, 2 points for at least 2 word
bank words)

Spelling and Grammar 2 points

 Unit 1 Khan Academy Activity: Pre-Calculus B
Conic Sections
Instructions Tasks
Step 1 Log in to Khan Academy

1. Log into Khan Academy with your school email.

link: How to Log into Khan Academy and 2. PLEASE watch the detailed instructional video to
Access Assignments the left.

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Step 2 Take one Screenshot of a problem
Take one screenshot of a problem you worked on WITH
your answer inserted. Copy and paste it below:
link: How to take a Screenshot
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Place Screenshot here:

 Unit 1 Khan Academy Activity: Pre-Calculus B
Conic Sections

Step 3 Explain Your Thinking!!!

Explain in a few sentences how you solved the problem
above. (Use word bank to help you)
Word Bank:
● Center
link: Helpful video to explain how you solved ● The point at intersection
a problem ● Major / minor axes
● Minor / major radius
● Length
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Axes
In the middle

“I was able to solve this problem by locating the center

of the ellipse. I found the semi-major axis by looking for
the side with the biggest radius. I counted the length of
the side and entered the answer.”

Step 4: DONE!!! Your Task

You are DONE!!!!

link: How to save and upload to your Please save this copy as a microsoft word document
Edmentum Class then upload it to your Unit 1 Activity to be graded!