Quadratic Formula Interactive Notebook Page

Well, since I posted my rattling ain quadratic formula song yesterday, I estimate it's alone plumbing fixtures that I postal service the residuum of my quadratic formula materials from terminal twelvemonth on my blog.  This postal service has been setting inwards my drafts folder since Pi Day.  I plainly demand to spider web log to a greater extent than often...  

My outset destination was to learn kids to memorize the quadratic formula.  I know from reading a lot of other math instructor blogs that many states render students amongst the quadratic formula on a formula canvass on their solid soil standardized tests.  Oklahoma is non i of those states  If they desire students to specifically locomote the quadratic formula on a sure enough problem, they may render it inwards a box side past times side to the problem.  But, what if my students desire to locomote the formula at other times?  If they don't convey it memorized, as well as thence it can't live on a tool inwards their tool box.  

Inspired past times Journal Wizard, I decided to brand a tangram puzzle amongst the quadratic formula written on it.  I've uploaded a template for the tangram puzzle below, but if you lot desire to locomote this, you lot volition convey to write the quadratic formula on it yourself as well as cutting apart the pieces to scramble the puzzle.  This was i of those interactive notebook pages that was thrown together seven minutes earlier outset hr started.  I tend to convey a lot of these...  

Give the kids the scrambled tangram pieces.  Let them cutting it out as well as get together the puzzle.  Glue inwards your notebook.  

We've already talked close solving past times factoring as well as solving past times foursquare rooting.  But, both of these required our equation to live on only correct inwards lodge to locomote the method.  The cracking matter close the quadratic formula is that it ALWAYS works.  

After gluing inwards the formula, nosotros did an event to proceed inwards our notebooks.  

Honestly, though, most of the outset 24-hour interval nosotros spent on the quadratic formula was focused on memorizing it.  It didn't assist that 50% of my Algebra 2 classes were gone on this 24-hour interval either...

Emily shared several versions of the quadratic formula vocal amongst me.  I already knew the Pop Goes the Weasel version from high school.  The other 2 versions gave me as well as my kids trouble.  You never know until you lot try, though.

We also watched 2 versions of the quadratic formula on Youtube: Adele as well as One Direction.

I'd read close a instructor having their students sing/recite the quadratic formula to around other instructor every bit an assignment before, as well as I decided I had to attempt it.

Here's the rattling official looking shape I made up:

To brand sure enough that students could recite the formula to anyone, I wrote out the formula both inwards "math" as well as inwards "English."  We alone convey 12 teachers inwards our high school, thence I was afraid that they were going to learn mad at me/frustrated amongst hearing the vocal from the 36 or thence Algebra 2 students I had terminal year.  But, I'm non sure enough a unmarried instructor e'er truly mentioned the assignment to me.  Hmmm...

There are several possibilities here.
1.  My students never truly recited the formula or sang the vocal for their teachers.  Instead, they forged their signatures.

2.  The teachers consider it was a perfectly normal assignment as well as felt no demand to comment on it.

3.  The teachers consider this was a crazy assignment, but they also intend of me every bit a instructor amongst crazy ideas.  So, this came every bit no surprise to them.

Hmmm...

Pop Goes The Weasel ended upwardly existence the most pop way, past times far, to memorize the formula.  My Algebra 2 classes chop-chop roughshod inwards dearest amongst the song.  And, they would interruption out into vocal quite often.  Anytime I would write the quadratic formula on the board, I would sing the lyrics every bit I wrote them.  My students started doing the same.

Last year, I did a cracking labor of getting kids to memorize the formula.  I did a much worse of getting them to locomote it properly.  Positive as well as negatives ended upwardly tripping them upwardly means also much.  Plus, they all preferred to solve their quadratics past times graphing when given the choice...  This is on my listing of things to meliorate upon for this electrical current schoolhouse year.

Download files for the tangram as well as the quadratic formula memorization/recitation assignment here.  

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