Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Population on the Move
In this activity students will determine the rate of change (slope) & build a linear model (y = mx + b) from this data. The model will be used to make a prediction about the future growth of the population of the U.S. if the current...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: A Sweet Drink Adventure 7
Students determine how the temperature of water affects the dissolving time of a sugar cube. They create, interpret and analyze graphs of data, find an equation of the line of best fit, and relate slope to rate of change.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Analyzing Functional Relationships: An Equitable Society?
In this interactive, explore data presented in a series of graphs to evaluate whether we are any closer to having an equitable society than we were in 1963, the year of the historic March on Washington. In the accompanying classroom...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Slope Intercept Form and Direct Variations
This lesson relates slope-intercept form to slope and direct variations.
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...
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.
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.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Slope of a Tangent Line 14 [Pdf]
The handout has students estimate the rate of change of the function at a given point. The handout consists of a graph available in PDF format.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: The Derivative
This lesson does a nice job of clarifying what it means to find a derivative. The lesson gives an algebraic method for finding the derivative using limits and offers a geometric interpretation of the derivative.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Interpretacion Geometrica De La Derivada
In Spanish. This interactive unit seeks to familiarize you with the concepts of secant and tangent to a curve. You will be able to take a look at how the approximation is produced and understand the limit as a process that you can see...
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"...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Made in America: The High Cost of Fashion
Investigate data on changes over time in where our apparel is made and how much we spend on it in these images from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students use the interactive and graph the data. They also look for...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Poverty Trends: What Does It Mean to Be Poor in America?
Use math to learn about changes in US wealth distribution and poverty rate over time in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students interpret the graphs and consider how the poverty rate spike following...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Graphing Is Great!
Students will explore graphing individually and in groups. They will also use an interactive activity to discuss slope and intercepts. To assess the lesson, students will use the floor tiles in the classroom as a large sheet of graph...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.f Downhill
In this task, a car is traveling down a steep hill. Students are given the function for elevation versus distance from the start and are asked to find and explain the slope and intercepts of the graph. Aligns with 8.F.B.4.
PBS
Pbs: Modeling the Linear Relationship Between Fahrenheit and Celsius
Explore the relationship between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. This video focuses on developing an expression to model the relationship between the temperature scales using a line graph to calculate slope and the y intercept.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Differential Equation Application [Pdf]
Students examine differential equations and slope fields in this rate of change example. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a slope field available in PDF format.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: What You Need to Know About Immigration Reform
Interpret graphs showing changes over time in the percentage of foreign-born US residents and in annual deportations in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students use the interactive and look at how...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Linear Equations
[Free Registration/Login Required] Connects what we have learned about slope as a ratio to linear equations. We had previously used the term rate of change, but can now connect it to the idea of slope. There are information pages and...