Quadratics

2.3 Practice, and the Opening Puzzle

Lesson materials located below the video overview.

SETTING THE SCENE

Your textbook is full of many problems to practice solving quadratic equations. Many of the problems will look like the ones we’ve presented in our previous essays, to simply examine and solve a stated equation. But some might look quite different and, on first appearance, might seem to have nothing to do with quadratic equations. In this essay we’ll present some unusual-looking quadratic equation practice questions.

SETTING UP EQUATIONS

Here’s a question.

PRACTICE 1: I ride my bike along a straight stretch of road. The road is  120 km long and …

 

READ MORE HERE: QUADRATICS PD Essay 2.3

(See too Edfinity.com/XXX for a robust source of curriculum practice problems for you collate, organise, and use.)

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