Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Lines
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that discuss graphing lines and introduces the concept of slope, the standard form of the line, the point-slope form, slope-intercept form, and parallel and perpendicular lines.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Linear Equations in Science: Relationships With Two Variables
An introduction to the history of linear equations and how they relate to science.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Equations of a Line (Slope and Intercept Form)
The interactive resource investigates slope and intercept. Students adjust the sliders to control the slope (m) and the intercept (b) of the line. The equation and the line will change accordingly. Learners can also drag the origin.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Using Slopes and Intercepts
Get independent practice using slopes and intercepts. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Multiple Representations of Slope Intercept
A Grade 8 Math teacher describes how she uses Excel and Word as tools to provide multiple representations of slope intercept for a UDL summative project in Algebra.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Slope Intercept, Point Slope Forms
Washington State University provides a lesson on finding the slope of an equation and putting the equation into the desired form. The site also contains informatinon concerning parallel and perpendicular lines.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Linear Equations Review
This Learn Check file is a review of linear equations. There are problems about slope, x- and y-intercepts, and writing equations of lines.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Walk My Walk
A two-part activity that uses a CBR to develop the notion of slope and y-intercept through various walking activities. Part A develops a general notion of how changes in walking are reflected in various graphical representations. Part B...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Slope Intercept Form
Students write linear equations in slope-intercept form and graph them. Students practice identifying slope and y-intercept and writing equations from a graphs.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Finding Slope Learn Check
Using the Activity Center, students will explore the characteristics of linear functions in the form y=mx+b. The major focus will be identifying slope and y-intercept.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: X (Or Y) Marks the Spot
Students will identify x- and y-intercepts graphically. Students will calculate the slope between 2 points. Students will write the equation of a line in slope-intercept form when given the graph of the line.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Funnel Volumes: Volume and Weight
In this activity, students' will use a force sensor to measure the weight of a water filled funnel as it drains. They analyze the weight versus time data and describe it using concepts of slope and intercepts of a linear function.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Investigating Equations of Lines
In this activity, students explore the equations of lines written in the form: y = mx + b. They move points defining the lines, and view the related changes in the parameters of the equations.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Graphic Line Designs
Students can use the x- and y-intercepts to find the equations of lines and create a line design using the slope-intercept form and the limited domain of the segment.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Slopes and Y Intercepts With Cabri Jr.
Use the TI-84 Plus, Cabri Jr., and TI-Navigator to teach slopes and y-intercepts in your Algebra classroom.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Y=mx+b Quick Check
In this activity students use an activity center to input equations with correct slope and y-intercept.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Using the Transform Application in an Algebra Class
This activity is intended to be a discovery activity for students to determine the effect that changing m and b have on the equation y=mx+b. There is a teacher guide and an activity to determine the student's level of understanding.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Quadratic Equations
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students write systems of equations in standard form in slope intercept form to solve the system using tables and graphs.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Investigating Y=mx+b
Students use a graphing calculator to explore graphs of equations in slope-intercept form.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring Slope Intercept Form of a Line
Use TI-Navigator to explore the relationship between a linear function and its graphs. See how the value of the slope and y-intercept affect the graphs.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Writing Linear Equations
Three different lessons demonstrate how to write linear equations. The equations found from two points, slope and a point, and slope and y-intercept are all featured. The lessons have an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Writing Linear Equations
Three different lessons demonstrate how to write linear equations. The equations found from two points, slope and a point, and slope and y-intercept are all featured. The lessons have an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation...
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
Given a line, learn how to find the equations for lines that are perpendicular and parallel to it. This tutorial offers several example graphs and problems as well as practice problems for you to work through when you're ready.
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University
Npac Reu Program: General Linear Equation
This site by the Northeast Parallel Architecture Center, Syracuse University, shows the different forms of linear equations for a line.