The suggestion to engage students in studying the effects on the graph of the quadratic function y = ax 2 + bx + c that result from varying the parameters a , b , and c is certainly not a new idea. In this article, we first review a few of the specific suggestions that have occurred over the past fifty years. Then we propose an activity of our own that makes use of the new generation of handheld technologies.
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