Text Resources
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Thomas A. Angelo & K. Patricia Cross
ISBN: 1-55542-500-3
Publisher: Jossey Bass
Pub. Date: 1993
Web Resources
www.keymath.com/x6928.xml This is an applet in which the students can manipulate the directrix and focus of a parabola.
http://poster.4teachers.org/ This is a free resource for students to design their own websites to display the projects they create.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=31 This applet is a "proof without words" of completing the square.
www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/parabola/focus.html This website investigates changes in a chance focal point which can be related to real world parabolas like satellites and parabolic microphones.
Supplies
Item
Unit Cost
Number of Units
Total Cost
Computers with Internet Access (in-kind)
$1,000
30
$30,000
Graphing Calculators
$90
$2,700
Alphabet and Number Magnets
$10
5
$50
$32,750