For those of you who have been in and out of class during this 3-day week, we did a 2-day project on how parabolas and quadratic functions related to the game Angry Birds. Each bird launched makes a parabola - upside-down, of course, because the path of the bird travels in an n-shape rather than a u-shape.
For the first day, we analyzed a graph of a traveling angry bird. We compared the path that the bird travels with the vertex, horizontal (x-axis) distance traveled, and the vertical (y-axis) height of the parabola.
In the second day, we designed our own Levels for the angry birds. Each level had to contain at least three targets, and you had to give me a quadratic equation (in vertex form) that would get the bird to hit each target in your Level. Shout out to Mia Goodwin, Hunter Ezell, and Tayda Galloway for some amazing-looking Levels! Shout out to Bruce Johnson for making his targets angry-squids! And shout out to Kindall because all of my 7th period students really liked your Level - great job!
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