Quin Bounce - Introduction

If you’ve done our first Quin Module you may remember how we used parameterized paths to move Quin around on a Desmos sheet. This activity uses a modified version of Quin to do something that uses a little more of what you may have been taught to think of as “pure math”. Don’t worry if you haven’t done the other activity, we’ll go through the problem step by step, and geometrically as well as algebraically.

The goal of the activity is to use multiple strategies to find the “bounce point” where Quin touches the parabola but doesn’t pass through it.