For my portfolio problem, I chose to do the desmos called Parabola Slalom.  In this desmos, we had to create quadratic equations that fit through gates. You can see an example below.

In this desmos, I learned how different factors of an equation affect the graph. I also learned when it would be beneficial to use different forms, such as vertex or factored.

Throughout the activity, I made many mistakes in my equations. Most of the time I forgot to make my x negative to have the parabola pointing down. Other times I would make the graph too narrow or too wide. Overall, I enjoyed the activity and I would not change how I completed it.

Our portfolio problem was to find out which friend traveled faster to a taco cart.

However the distance of one friend(ben) was not given to us, so I had to use pythagorean thereom to figure out the triangle’s hypotenuse(ben’s distance).

After that I had to figure out how fast they walked so I divided ben’s distance by 2, because he walks 2 feet per second on sand. Then I converted that to minutes. I did the same for me except I divided 325.6 by 2 and 562.6 and added them together. I then converted those seconds to minutes.

You can see my all my work in the image below. Ben traveled for 5:25 minutes, and me traveled 4:35 minutes. Meaning that me’s route was faster.