ABCya
Ab Cya: Turkey Touchdown
What's more Thanksgiving than turkey and football? What about turkeys playing football? Turkey Touchdown is a great way for kids to celebrate the holiday and practice their math facts. Kids will choose a level of difficulty, and then...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 3.3 Inverse Functions
This section explores the process for finding inverses of functions, and then proving the function and its inverse algebraically. Additionally, it explores how the graphs of functions and their inverses compare to each other, and it...
Other
Desmos: Put the Point on the Line
In this activity, students investigate slope and how it can be explained as a ratio of change between the vertical and horizontal coordinates.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Line Problems
This site answers many general questions about linear equations and their graphs. A student posed several questions to Dr. Math regarding lines and their equations. Question number 4 is about the equation of a horizontal line and Dr....
ArtLex
Art Lex: Line
This online dictionary of art terms from Artlex is a valuable tool. Line is on the Li page. Just scroll down to Line and read a definition with links or look at a sample works of art by Rembrandt or Richard Long. There are quotes by...
California State University
Ca State University, San Bernadino: Graphing Techniques
A survey of math graphing techniques includes horizontal and vertical shifts, stretching, lines of symmetry, even and odd functions, and absolute value functions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Graphs of Linear Equations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn to use a table to graph functions recognizing linear equations and the equations of horizontal lines and vertical lines. Students examine guided...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: The Absolute Value of Dance
In this lesson, young scholars use a graph to choreograph a dance figure. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mondrian, Composition With Red, Blue, and Yellow
Piet Mondrian's painting, "Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow", is a collection of rectilinear forms, squares, and rectangles defined by vertical and horizontal lines. His style is called Neo-Plasticism or "The New Plastic Painting"....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding the Slope When Given Two Points
When given two ordered pairs, find the slope of a line. Includes video.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra: Graphing Linear Equations
A simple tutorial that will show you how to graph linear equations and functions after finding the x- and y-intercepts. Provides definitions, steps for sketching a graph, and several examples of linear equations and their graphs....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Distance Between Points: Vertical or Horizontal
Practice finding the distance between two points on the coordinate plane that share the same x- or y-coordinate. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebra 2: Definition of Inverse Function
An introductory look at the definition of an inverse function, the notation used for inverse functions, and tests used to determine whether a function will have an inverse. Several examples are provided for the student to scroll through...
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University
Npac Reu Program: Slope & Line Equations
This site from the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University has a very substantial discussion of math topics slope & line equations. The outline form is quite useful if you need to zero in on one aspect of...
The Math League
The Math League: Using Data and Statistics
This site contains two short examples of line graphs, charts that show change over time. This is a quick introduction to the topic of statistical graphing.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Doce Cerillas
See if you can connect the dots of the same color with horizontal and vertical segments without leaving the grid and without intersecting the lines or crossing the colored dots.
Other
Relationships: Dynamics
The dynamics of shape in art and the relationship of shape with the other elements of art. The effects of angles and lines on perception.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe.5 Triangles Inscribed in Circle
In this task, students use ideas about linear functions to determine when certain angles are right angles. They use the fact that two lines (if not vertical or horizontal) are perpendicular when their slopes are inverse reciprocals, as...
Other
Georgia Perimeter College: Parabolas
This resource provides an examination of parabolas, both vertical and horizontal, and parabolic functions. It includes six examples and a chart showing how changes in the equation coincide with changes in the graph.
Other
Harold Olejarz: Interactive Horizon Line
An interesting interactive slide show about perspective, including the horizon line and vanishing points.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Vertical and Horizontal Line Length Illusion
This is a vertical and horizontal line length optical illusion. The vertical line that is part of the image on the left looks longer than the horizontal line but when it is checked with a ruler on the right image it is proved that they...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: When Is a Slope 0 or Undefined?
At this site Dr. Math gives a discussion on the slopes of lines. The Dr. gives an analogy between the slope of a line and walking up and down hills. The Dr. explores the concept of undefined and zero slopes through his response to a...
Curated OER
Y = (2/3)X 4
This lesson on slope explains the slope concepts, demonstrates how to use the slope formula, shows how to find slope in horizontal and vertical lines, and how to use slope to find whether the lines through the pairs of points are...
Curated OER
Y = 2x + 3
This lesson on slope explains the slope concepts, demonstrates how to use the slope formula, shows how to find slope in horizontal and vertical lines, and how to use slope to find whether the lines through the pairs of points are...