Erica’s Errors On Quadratics

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Erica has made some silly mistakes on her quadratics homework, involving factorising, solving , completing the square, functions and the discriminant. Your students’ task is to find the errors, correct them and explain what Erica has done incorrectly. This should generate discussion in class.

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Resource type	Worksheet/Activity
Age range	Age 16+

SKU: 11703863 Categories: Algebraic Manipulation, Functions, Numerical Methods, Roots Of Polynomials

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Erica has made some silly mistakes on her quadratics homework, involving factorising, solving , completing the square, functions and the discriminant. Your students’ task is to find the errors, correct them and explain what Erica has done incorrectly. This should generate discussion in class.

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