Factoring Practice

[Daniel Dudley]

Someone recently posted a doc that would generate radicals to be simplified and have the students work the problem step by step.  Does anyone have something similar for factoring quadratics?

 

Dan

[Steve Arnold]

I just uploaded a file called Quadratic Factors that should do what you want Dan.

Steve

On 4 September 2010 03:36, Daniel Dudley <Dan...@vvsaz.org> wrote:

Someone recently posted a doc that would generate radicals to be simplified and have the students work the problem step by step.  Does anyone have something similar for factoring quadratics?

 

Dan

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[Daniel Dudley]

This is great, thanks.

 

Dan

[Daniel Dudley]

I have a couple of questions.

 

1)      Does this generate quadratics where a<>1?

2)      Is it possible for a student to enter a quadratic that they would like to solve perhaps from their homework and the program walks them through it like it does for the problems that it generates?

Dan

 

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I just uploaded a file called Quadratic Factors that should do what you want Dan.

[Steve Arnold]

The answer is yes to question 1 and not yet to question 2 (but you have reminded me that I meant to do that!)

You will notice that the program quadratic_factors() currently has 1 as its argument. Change that to 2 and you will get non-monic quadratics generated.

If I get a chance to add the ability to enter their own quadratics I will let you know.

Steve

[Steve Arnold]

OK Daniel - grab the new version of Quadratic Factors from the Google Files page - it should do what you would like. 

Please let me know if there are any problems.

Steve

On 6 September 2010 14:19, Daniel Dudley <Dan...@vvsaz.org> wrote: