Sophia Learning
Sophia: Find Slope and Rate of Change
This learning tutorial demonstrates how to find the slope of a line and the rate of change for a table. The lesson includes several PowerPoint presentations about slope and even provides practice problems for students to test their...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Linear Functions: Slope as Rate of Change
Students learn to associate the slope of a straight line with a constant rate of change. They also learn to calculate the rate of change from data points on a line, using the correct units. Students also learn to read from a linear...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Analysis: Average Rate of Change
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Defining average rate of change and evaluating simple examples
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rate of Change
This activity is designed for students who have already learned the definition of the derivative and that it can be used to determine the slope of a curve. (Continued. See "before the activity.")
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Rates of Change
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the rate of change associated with real-world scenarios.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Rates of Change
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to solve problems involving rates of change.
Other
Nearpod: What Is Slope?
In this lesson on slope, young scholars explore how the rate of change can be identified using a graph, a set of points, and a table.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Average Rate of Change 3 [Pdf]
The handout explores the relationship between the average rate of change and the slope of the tangent line. The exercise is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Average Rate of Change 2 [Pdf]
Students use a given graph to investigate the average rate of change and slope of the tangent line. The practice problem is available in PDF format.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Slope and Constant Rate of Change: Lesson 3
This lesson explains how slope is related to constant rate of change for linear functions. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Slope and Constant Rate of Change."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding Rates of Change in Linear Relationships: Lesson 3
This lesson demonstrates how to find the rate of change in functions with linear relationships. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Finding Rates of Change in Linear Relationships."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding Rate of Change: Lesson 4
This lesson demonstrates how to determine the rate of change between two points on a graph. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Finding Rate of Change."
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Sack Race
The primary focus should be on slope as rate of change and piecewise functions. This activity allows exploration of multiple types of slope; i.e., positive slope, negative slope, or zero slope for students to build their understanding of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpreting Slope and Y Intercept of Lines of Best Fit
Practice explaining the meaning of slope and y-intercept for lines of best fit on scatter plots. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
Anne Arundel Community College
Anne Arundel Community College: Math 131: Slope
The tutorial examines the slope of a line. Students learn about the mathematics concept through definitions and detailed examples.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Differential Equation and Slope Field [Pdf]
Students use a given differential equation and slope field to answer questions regarding the general solutions and rate of change of the differential equation. The exercise is available in PDF format.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Walking the Line
In this activity, students use linear functions to model and solve problems in situations with slope and a constant rate of change. They learn to represent situations with variables in expressions, equations, and inequalities and use...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System: More Students Apply Early
Using the USA TODAY Infograph, "More students apply early," students will explore scatter plots and independent and dependent variables. Students will determine a best-fit regression model for the real-life data set and then use the...
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: What's Your Rate of Change?
For this lesson, students use an electronic data collector to write the equation of a line.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Slope Intercept Form and Direct Variations
This lesson relates slope-intercept form to slope and direct variations.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Exploring Change
This activity introduces students to Activity Center. In this activity, students will explore change in the context of cellular telephone charges. Students will create a scatter plot showing that the rate per minute for a "pay as you go"...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Understanding Slope
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students identify, interpret, and use the meaning of slope of a line as a rate of change using physical, symbolic, and technological models.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Understanding Slope as a Ratio
[Free Registration/Login Required] Finished investigating slope as an angle and will now do some investigation with slope as a ratio. It will then be a bridge to go back to linear equations (with the connection to rate of change). There...
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 13 [Pdf]
The handout has students estimate the rate of change of the function at a given point. The exercise consists of a graph available in PDF format.