On March 11th, DESMOS activity:
Two Truths and a Lie: Parabolas was given.
14 students participated, this activity took 30 minutes.
In this DESMOS activity students were able to master important features of a parabola such as Vertex, concavity, X-intercepts, Y-intercepts, and Axis of Symmetry. Students were given 3 statements about the graph of a given Parabola, two statements were true and one was false, Students had to identify the false statement and justify why the statement was false in their own words. Next, students were asked to create their own challenge, they were asked to post three statements about a Parabola that they constructed on their own, once they finished, after going over their own challenge they were asked to post their challenge for their class mates to go trough, it was very interesting to see how students verified the validity of the statements that their classmates posted, this activity definitely, help students to have a much better understanding of important features of a parabola and to be able to discuss it with their classmates and myself.
