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[–] MouldyC 1 points 1 year ago

I like this approach. It seems conceptually easy enough for my middle school students to understand. Now to try it out with them....

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With the thumbnail I expected a simpler expression of the quadratic formula, which is already very easy to use. His method also doesn't work for equations where the aX² term doesn't have a=1.

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

if a!=1, then just multiply the equation with 1/a.