Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Orlando, Florida, March 22-25, 2012

Paper C041

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Illustrating the Extension of a Special Property of Cubic Polynomials to Nth Degree Polynomials

David Miller


West Virginia University

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we we will first discuss a mysterious property that deals with cubic polynomials and tangent lines. This property will be illustrated through GeoGebra, and a proof will be discussed, with connection to a familiar calculus topic. This property will be extended to higher degree polynomials and illustrated in GeoGebra.

Keyword(s): GeoGebra