This is the first activity that we did. We used parabolas to guess if the guy would make the basketball into the hoop or not. Most of my answers were very short and I didn't go much into detail about my predictions. I guessed that this shot would go in because of the arch and the line shows that the ball is going to go through the hoop. From this activity, I was introduced to parabolas and how they can be used in various ways.
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This is the fifth and final activity that we did. For this activity, we had to create parabolas for the marbles so that they were able to collect all the stars. As you can see, it says. "Success!" because I was able to make a parabola that helped the marbles collect the stars. This activity was the most challenging one for me because I first had to start of with plugging in random numbers in order to get somewhere. As soon as I was able to create multiple parabolas, I eventually got the hang of it and learned how to manipulate them in various ways.
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