QuadraticFUNction Aerobics

Retrieved from the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education Original Author: Elizabeth Pattison, District School Board of Niagara.

How to play:A function will appear on the screen, and using your arms (and taking any necessary steps), you must show what the graph would look like.

For example:

x2 would be…

Are you readyto become

a “Dancing Queen”?

x2

-x2

x2 - 1

(x-1)2

x2 + 1

(x+1)2

2x2

-2x2

3x2

-3x2

1/2x2

-1/3x2

(x + 2)2

(x-2)2

-(x-3)2

(x - 1)2 + 2

2(x+2)2 - 1

1/2 (x + 1)2 + 2