{"id":6821,"date":"2011-12-05T19:19:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T11:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=6821"},"modified":"2013-01-12T13:59:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T05:59:03","slug":"interactive-parabola-graphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/interactive-parabola-graphs-6821","title":{"rendered":"Interactive parabola graphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've just added some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/plane-analytic-geometry\/parabola-interactive.php\">new interactive graphs<\/a> which demonstrate some of the key features of parabolas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A parabola is the locus of points equidistant from a point and a line<\/li>\n<li>The effect of moving the focus relative to the directrix (the parabola narrows or becomes wider)<\/li>\n<li>The equation of a parabola whose vertex is at (<em>h, k<\/em>) is given by (<em>x &minus; h<\/em>)<sup>2<\/sup> = 4<em>p<\/em>(<em>y &minus; k<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>A parabola with horizontal axis and its equation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I develop these interactives so readers can better understand the concepts and will see how the equations work.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out and let me know what you think. Do the graphs help your (or your students') understanding? How could they be improved?<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/plane-analytic-geometry\/parabola-interactive.php\">Interactive parabola graphs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/interactive-parabola-graphs-6821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Interactive parabola graphs\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/12\/parabola-interactive.gif\" title=\"Interactive parabola graphs\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI've added a new page containing 3 interactive graphs which explain parabola concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[134,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}