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Picturing Lines PerformancePicturing Lines Performance
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Radford University
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9th - 12th
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Math
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Picturing Lines

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Slopes are everywhere—even in houses! Given a picture of a house, learners find lines with positive, negative, zero, and no slopes. Scholars determine the equation of the lines by calculating the slopes and y-intercepts. Class members then find pictures of real-world objects that have the four different types of slopes.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

negative slope, slope, slope formula, y-intercepts, linear equations, linear equations writing, point-slope form

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide several magazines with pictures to use to find images of slopes

Classroom Considerations

  • Assumes the class understands how to write equations of a line given a graph
  • Requires the ability to overlay a coordinate axis over an image

Pros

  • Provides a sample solution
  • Includes suggestions for teacher questions to determine whether pupils understand the material

Cons

  • None

Common Core

MP4 MP6 HSA-CED.A.2 HSF-IF.B.6 HSF-IF.C.7.a HSF-LE.A.2

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