Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of algebra that deals with quadratic equations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Alg.) That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
quadratic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a branch of algebra dealing with quadratic equations
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(that is, our quadratics are monic), to make our calculations easier.
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Attempts to fit other functions, such as quadratics, other polynomials, logarithmic functions and exponentials all produced very small R-squared values.
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Attempts to fit other functions, such as quadratics, other polynomials, logarithmic functions and exponentials all produced very small R-squared values.
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Attempts to fit other functions, such as quadratics, other polynomials, logarithmic functions and exponentials all produced very small R-squared values.
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For example, after I read a recent post by a Sam Shah about visually representing quadratics to see how many are factorable over integers, I started thinking about some ways to drive that point to students.
The Ten Commandments Darren Kuropatwa 2009
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I described about 4 different ways that it could be done and even created a tool to visualize quadratics factorization, but unless someone comments or e-mails me, I'm basically in the dark.
The Ten Commandments Darren Kuropatwa 2009
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The other good thing I discovered was what to say to someone at a party when they discover you are a maths teacher and come up to you and say, "they taught me boring quadratics at school and I am a successful businessman and have never used quadratics ... what a waste of time".
Archive 2008-02-01 Bill Kerr 2008
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When I studied quadratics deeply - by writing a logo program to teach quadratics behaviouristically - I was able to teach them more effectively.
minsky's attempt to explain hard problem solving Bill Kerr 2008
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The other good thing I discovered was what to say to someone at a party when they discover you are a maths teacher and come up to you and say, "they taught me boring quadratics at school and I am a successful businessman and have never used quadratics ... what a waste of time".
what is maths? Bill Kerr 2008
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When I studied quadratics deeply - by writing a logo program to teach quadratics behaviouristically - I was able to teach them more effectively.
Archive 2008-01-01 Bill Kerr 2008
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