High School · Expressing Geometric Properties with Equations

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSG.GPE.A.2

Derive the equation of a parabola given a focus and directrix.

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Lessons that teach this standard

• The Parabola from Its Focus and Directrix

  Why a parabola is every point equally far from a point and a line, how to derive its equation from that definition with the distance formula, and what the focus does.