Muddiest Point

The muddiest point for me with polynomials was graphing.  At the beginning of the trimester, our teacher was sick for several days and we were left to problem solve our way through.  On the second day I finally realized that by splitting each section of the polynomial (while it is in vertex form) you can look at it as many individual graph meeting together.  Along with the end behaviors sheet the sub gave us I was able to figure out the graphing.