Gingerbread graphing

Graphed and ready to eat!

Madaba, Jordan
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Any teacher knows that those last days before winter break are hard ones: tough for the teachers, tough for the kids. We soldiered bravely on today with graphing parabolas, but in a nod to the approaching holidays, we graphed our last quadratics of the year on gingerbread "graph paper." The  writing implement of choice was colored frosting in ziploc baggies. Okay, maybe it was a little silly, but the kids seemed awfully pleased about it.

Gingerbread graph paper

Since getting to eat the graph was dependent on getting the graph right, I can safely say that they seemed to be concentrating pretty hard on those transformation rules. Happy holidays!