Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoy your break.   

After the break, you can drop by and show me a fully functioning polynomial grapher.   A good grapher would include
  • dynamic changes based on different zeroes. 
  • an (i.e. updates when roots are changed) "a" calculator.
  • a y-intercept calculator.
  • a graph that always includes the zeros and enough other points to see the behavior of the polynomial.
  • the coefficients of the expanded polynomial.
  • a generally neat, well-organized, and pleasant looking spreadsheet.
You can work on this a bit after break.  I hope you don't do any math over break unless you get really bored!