High School · Seeing Structure in Expressions

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSA.SSE.B.3b

Complete the square in a quadratic expression to reveal the maximum or minimum value of the function it defines.

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Lessons that teach this standard

• Completing the Square, Step by Step

  Learn completing the square: why the method works geometrically, how to handle a leading coefficient, and how it produces vertex form and the quadratic formula.