Looking at a parabola and going off on 4 tangents
As the curriculum sequence is normally presented, we don’t usually consider tangent lines to curves until Calculus. As a result, taking a derivative might se...
parabola
Reflective Property of a Parabola
We’ve been going the reflective property for a parabola in class and I wanted to make my own diagram to illustrate a few nice points (and all without calculu...
Tilted Parabolas (Or all the stuff they didn’t tell you in school about them)
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” W. Shakespeare
Parabola Equations and the related Coordinates
I put this together partly because I’ve been thinking about: Vieta Formula Brainstorming but mostly because I haven’t seen it elsewhere. The symmetry is mor...