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There once was a boy in the small 

town of nine and this little boy's 

name was Mathis Mathersine.

Mathis loved school in every way. He walked there each 

and everyday. He liked to play in the park and swim in the 

pool and he played in a band every day after school.

Then came for Mathis a very big day. This was it the 

start of 11th grade. He dressed up real nice in his suit 

and his tie to impress his new teachers as he walked by.

Things were going great till Mathis came too, his new math teacher and his 

new math classroom. This year he was to take Algebra 2 and trig. But the 

numbers and formulas were just too big. The board looked like it was written 

on in a foreign language and Mathis couldn't manage to make sense of it.   He 

couldn't understand what was going on the math didn't make sense did he do 

something wrong.

Then before anyone one knew the time just flew by and the end of the year was 

looming nearby. Mathis had failed almost every test, he was struggling just to pass 

and trying his best. His parents had stopped him from playing with his band even 

though he was doing all that anyone can. Trying real hard had just done no good and 

Mathis started crying like anyone would.

Then Mathis realized and quivered with fear that the big 

test,the regents soon would be here. Mathis had manged to 

get his grade to a 72 but if he did badly Mathis just knew that 

he'd fail his math class and go to summer school.

Then the teacher saw Mathis shaking and crying and quivering 

to. She said, "Mathis how about you stay after school I bet I 

can find some way to help you." And later that day after the 

last bell rang he came and sat down with his teacher, Miss 

Plane.

She said to Mathis "lets do some review I have five formula's I 

know can help you.The fist one is easy it goes to a song and 

with it you can't solve a quadratic equation wrong. Now sit 

close to the board so you know what goes on."

She taught him the song and he learned it real quick and then Miss 

Plane explained how to use it. She told him to witch terms were a ,b 

and c. Then showed Mathis quite happily how to plug in and solve for 

x without factoring. Then Mathis went up to the board and as you 

can see he solved a math problem quite easily. 

X=-11+or- 

                      _________________

                                 2(1)

X=-11+ or-      9

      _____________

                 2

X=-11 + or - 3

    __________

           2

X= -7 and X=-4

With Just that small piece of help Mathis already felt better. But Miss plane 

had much more to add on to the lesson. She told Mathis,"please don't forget 

cause here's a quick tip if the questions are multiple choice just graph and 

solve it."

Then she showed Mathis how to find really quick the sum and product of the 

roots of a quadratic equation. "These are two little formulas I really count as 

one as they both go together, you need both of 'em."

"Just plug in terms a,b, and c of your equation and 

solve it's really just that easy. Oh and Mathis don't 

forget you don't need a formula if the a term is 1 

now this little trick is kind of fun. The negative b 

term's your sum and c's your product you don't even 

need to worry about it."

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