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Google Doodle Teaching Quadratic Equation Goes Live in India

The rollout targets the school term with a basketball parabola illustrating real-world motion.

Overview

  • The animated homepage artwork, titled "Learning the Quadratic Equation," is visible to Indian users on November 12 with an India-specific hover label and runs for 24 hours.
  • Clicking the Doodle opens Gemini AI or a dedicated results page that offers step-by-step explanations and a walk-through using a basketball shot.
  • The logo animates into parabolic curves as the second g and e kick a basketball-shaped o, visually connecting ax² + bx + c = 0 to its graph and roots.
  • Interactive tools let users input values such as speed, time, and height to see how the trajectory and coefficients affect the parabola.
  • First launched on September 8 in the US and UK, the feature expanded across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, aligning with October–November curriculum coverage.