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This question takes the student through variety of examples of quadratic inequalities by asking them for the range(s) for which $x$ meets the inequality.
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Vicky Hall | said | Has some problems | 7 years, 9 months ago |
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Published this.Christian Lawson-Perfect 7 years, 9 months ago
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Christian Lawson-Perfect 7 years, 9 months ago
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I've fixed a couple of typos, but otherwise this is OK!
Bradley Bush commented 7 years, 9 months ago
Thank you for the feedback, I can see your logic, so I've changed it to your way of asking.
The inequality signs have been swapped to make sure the student is paying attention to their direction because of it's significance to the question.
Both graphs struggled to fit on the same figure so I have added another graph at the end with an brief bit of text to justify that both x ranges are the same.
Bradley Bush 7 years, 9 months ago
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Christian Lawson-Perfect commented 7 years, 9 months ago
(I realise I contradicted Vicky's suggestion. Not sure if what you've done is exactly what she imagined, but it doesn't read clearly to me!)
Christian Lawson-Perfect 7 years, 9 months ago
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Christian Lawson-Perfect commented 7 years, 9 months ago
I've changed "sketch the quadratic" to "sketch each quadratic".
The prompt doesn't actually say what should go in the first gap for each part. I know the statement says factorise first, but you should be absolutely clear what you want.
I'd have:
"Factorise f(x):
x2+ax+b= [[gap]]
Hence, find the range of values for x such that x2+ax+b>0."
You need a conjunction between the two inequalities at the end of parts a and b: "x>?? OR x<??" in part a, and x>?? AND x<??" for part b. If you want, you can make that a dropdown.
The inequality signs for part b are the other way round to part a. Why?
Part c doesn't make sense - you can't rearrange an inequality to get an equality. I'd ask them to rearrange to get something >0 - this also makes sure they don't give the negation of what you're expecting - and then say "by factorising or otherwise, give the range of values for which ax+b>x2. Keeping track of the inequality makes it easier to work out which way round the upper and lower bounds should go.
In the advice, I'd give examples of some values of x that satisfy the inequality - in part a, a big negative value and a big positive value, and in part b a vlaue between the roots. For part c, I think it would be very helpful to show the graphs of x2 and ax+b on top of the graph of x2−ax−b to show that the inequality holds for the same values in both arrangements - i.e., x2>ax+b exactly when x2−ax−b>0.
Bradley Bush 7 years, 9 months ago
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Bradley Bush 7 years, 9 months ago
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Bradley Bush commented 7 years, 9 months ago
Thank you for the feedback, those typos were careless and hopefully they are all sorted now, I have also reworded the question for you.
I hate to disagree but I think that it would be useful for students who are struggling in particular to have the factorise step left in the question to give the student a mid way point. But if there is more logic behind removing the gap, I am happy to take it out.
Vicky Hall 7 years, 9 months ago
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Vicky Hall commented 7 years, 9 months ago
Reword the questions here to say something like: find the range of values of x for which function>0. You have told the student to factorise in the statement so you don't need to say it again. I would also remove the gap asking them to give the factorised form.
Have a check through the advice as I noticed a couple of typos and a rogue part d).
Bradley Bush 7 years, 9 months ago
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Bradley Bush commented 7 years, 9 months ago
How do I allow either or answers for the gap in part a?
Bradley Bush 7 years, 9 months ago
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