ALGEBRA II ON THE CLASSPAD

To highlight an expression
Useful Vocabulary in the Output, we can just
tap the Output.
Menu Bar
Drag

Toolbar Tap to highlight in Output.

Keyboard To Drag and Drop a

highlighted selection, tap
Status Bar the highlighted selection
(Tap to change modes)
and hold, drag it to where
you want it, then release.
Icon Panel
Tip: While in Main you can toggle highlighted outputs
Tap m to view the between Standard and Decimal mode with ..
Application Menu

Cursor Key

Entering Math
Tap M on the Icon Panel.

The Keyboard button turns the soft keyboard on and off. Using Menus
Find the fraction button,
Tap the 2D tab at the N, on the Keyboard and
top of the Keyboard.
x2 1
input . If you press
Tap the 5 button, then x +1
the number 2, and press EXE the ClassPad returns
EXE. The screen should the same as the input.
look like the ClassPad at
the top of the page. x2 1
Drag and Drop to
x +1
Drag and Drop
the next line and
To Drag and Drop
something first we need to highlight it. Then go to
highlight it. To highlight an the Interactive menu, tap
expression In-Line we need on Transformation, and
to tap and hold the stylus tap simplify.
on one side, drag the stylus
across our selection, and The ClassPad
then release. automatically encloses

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the highlighted selection in the simplify command and equation is selected by the check mark in the box.
executes it.
Tap the $ icon to graph it.

Solve You can adjust the Graph

Interactive commands can window dimensions and
also be used without properties with the icon.
highlighting. Go to Tip: The Zoom menu has
Interactive\Advanced and many options, but the plus
tap solve. + and minus - keys can be
used if you just want to
zoom in or out.

A dialog box opens. Input Note: With two windows

the equation open it is important to know
y = 3 x + b and change the which window is the Active
window. The Active window
Variable solved for to b . has a bold border around it.
The toolbar corresponds with the Active window.

Drag and Drop Graphs

Then tap OK. We see the

Go to the Main application,
equation solved for the
M, and enter the equation
variable b .
y = ( x + 1) 2 2 . Tap the
Graph window button in the
toolbar, $. You will now
have two windows open.
We can use the with key, Highlight y = ( x + 1) 2 2 .
U, to substitute values for
variables. It can be found on
the Keyboard in the 2D tab
under OPTN.
Drag and Drop it into the
Graph window. The
Graphing ClassPad automatically
graphs the equation for you.
Equations
Tap m,to go to the
Applications Menu. Tap the
Graph & Table icon, g. Input
x 2 1 in the Graph Editor
window next to y1. Press
EXE to have this equation
selected. You can tell the

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Analyzing Graphs
You can perform function
With the Graph window operations with function
Active, go to Analysis\G- notation.
Solve and select fMin. The
Tip: Once you have anything
graph will select the (like the letter f) on screen
minimum value of the you can highlight it, Drag
equation. and Drop, and then edit it
In-Line instead of retyping it.
Bold border means this
window is active. Geometry Link
Tap m on the Icon Panel to
get to the Application Menu
To find roots of a function then tap A.
go to Analysis\G-Solve and
select Root. When there is
more than one root you can Open a Geometry strip
scroll between them using from the toolbar.
the left and right arrow on
the Cursor Key.
Then insert a Geometry
Note: fMin, fMax, and Root Link found in Insert in the
only find values within the Menu Bar.
domain given by the
graphing window.
Enter the equation y = x 2
Defining Functions in the Geometry link then
Drag and Drop the equation
to the Geometry window.
The ClassPad can use Tap the q button in the
function notation to define
toolbar until you see axes
functions. Define can be
found in the Interactive and grid lines. The graph of
Menu. your equation and the
equation itself are
dynamically linked.

If you click on the graph

and move it, the equation
In the Dialog box you can
changes. If you change the
choose the name, variable
equation, the graph
and expression for your
changes.
function.

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Rational Functions
To graph the equation
If you make a correct step,
x 2 1 you will get a smiley face
y= 2 first factor
x 2x 3 and be allowed to
the numerator and continue.
denomintor. Factor can be
found in the Action menu.

( x + 1)( x 1)
Enter into
( x + 1)( x 3)
Modes
the Graph Editor window.
Also enter the horizontal
asymptote y=1 and the The status bar tells you
vertical asymptote x=3. which modes you are in
and can be changed by
Open the Type menu in the
tapping the mode with
toolbar to choose x= Type.
the stylus. To do work
Change the lines to dotted with complex numbers or
lines. with degrees instead of
Make sure all the equations are selected (check marks radians, you will need to
in boxes) and then press the graph button $. change modes.

Note: The imaginary

Verify
number i can be found
on the Keyboard. Modes change by tapping
Verify can be found on
the toolbar in Main. It Touch Panel Alignment
allows the user to do the
work themselves while
If your stylus seems to be
having ClassPad check if
missing its mark from
their steps are correct.
time to time you can
realign your Touch Panel
by going to the
Application Menu and
tapping on Menu at the
If you make an incorrect
top of the screen.
step, you will get an Error
message.

Links
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