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  • Complete the Square for Vertex Form

    Complete the Square for Vertex Form

    This post provides a handout that guides students through the various steps for completing the square to transform an equation into vertex form. Students are guided through each step in isolation. Overview Students are presented each step in a separate chunk of the lesson. Then the steps are chained together, with scaffolding that is faded.…

  • Graphing a Quadratic Function in Vertex Form – Scaffolded Handout

    Graphing a Quadratic Function in Vertex Form – Scaffolded Handout

    Here is a scaffolded handout. The first problem has additional scaffolding to convert from addition to subtraction and vise versa. The first problem does not require the transformation of the operations but the second one does.