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Points, Slopes, and Lines Lesson PlanPoints, Slopes, and Lines Lesson Plan
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Education Development Center
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6th - 9th
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2014
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Points, Slopes, and Lines

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Before graphing and finding distances, learners investigate the coordinate plane and look at patterns related to plotted points. Points are plotted and the goal is to look at the horizontal and vertical distances between coordinates and discuss the meaning. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

distance formula, slope, slope formula, graphing linear equations, linear functions, plotting points, coordinate pair, x-coordinates

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Before teaching the distance formula, use these practice problems to introduce the idea

Classroom Considerations

  • This is a sample of the original resource and may not contain all the material listed in the table of contents

Pros

  • Great as an introduction to the distance formula or pythagorean theorem

Cons

  • While explanations are provided, the answer keys are not

Common Core

6.NS.C.6.b 6.NS.C.6.c 6.NS.C.8 MP2

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