TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Linear Equations Game
Students groups act as aerospace engineering teams competing to create linear equations to guide space shuttles safely through obstacles generated by a modeling game in level-based rounds. Each round provides a different configuration of...
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Teach Engineering: How Fast Does Water Travel Through Soils?
Students measure the permeability of different types of soils, compare results and realize the importance of size, voids and density in permeability response.
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Teach Engineering: Measuring Lava Flow
Students learn how volume, viscosity and slope are factors that affect the surface area that lava covers. Using clear transparency grids and liquid soap, students conduct experiments, make measurements and collect data. They also...
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Teach Engineering: Matching the Motion
Students learn about slope, determining slope, distance vs. time graphs through a motion-filled activity. Working in teams with calculators and CBL motion detectors, students attempt to match the provided graphs and equations with the...
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Teach Engineering: Handheld Trigonometry
In addition to understanding the concept of similar right triangles and how they apply to trigonometric ratios, students explore a clinometer app, and discover how it can be used to test the mathematics underpinning trigonometry.
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Teach Engineering: Variables and Graphs: What's Our Story?
Young scholars learn how to quickly and efficiently interpret graphs, which are used for everyday purposes as well as engineering analysis.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Challenge Question: "Walk the Line"
Students are introduced to the "Walk the Line" challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they need to answer the question. Ideas are shared with the class (or in pairs...
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Teach Engineering: Graphing Equations on the Cartesian Plane: Slope
The lesson teaches students about an important characteristic of lines: their slopes. Slope can be determined either in graphical or algebraic form. Slope can also be described as positive, negative, zero or undefined. Students get an...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Predicting the Effects of Changing Slope in Problem Situations
Given verbal, symbolic, numerical, or graphical representations of problem situations, the student will interpret and predict the effects of changing the slope in the context of the situations.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Equations of Lines
Given two points, the slope and a point, or the slope and the y-intercept, the student will write linear equations in two variables.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Slope 2
Twenty-one problems present a variety of practice finding the slope of various lines and related topics. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the...
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University
Npac Reu Program: Slope & Line Equations
This site from the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University has a very substantial discussion of math topics slope & line equations. The outline form is quite useful if you need to zero in on one aspect of...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Lines and Slope: Chameleon Graphing
Join Joan the chameleon in an exploration of lines and slope. You'll be drawing lines, calculating slope, using equations and more!
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: The Regression Equation
A tutorial on how to find the line of best fit or least-squares regression line for a set of data in a scatter plot using different methods and calculations.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Determining Slopes From Equations, Graphs, and Tables
Given algebraic, tabular, and graphical representations of linear functions, the student will determine the slope of the relationship from each of the representations.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Determining the Meaning of Intercepts
Given algebraic, tabular, and graphical representations of linear functions, the student will determine the intercepts of the function and interpret the meaning of intercepts within the context of the situation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Developing the Concept of Slope
Given multiple representations of linear functions, the student will develop the concept of slope as a rate of change.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Coordinate Geometry: Slope
Given coordinate points, the student will use slope formulas to solve problems.
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.
Other
South Africa: Soil Erosion
A thorough explanation of erosion including causes of soil erosion, water erosion, and water erosion.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun Mathematics Lessons
This resource has mathematics lessons for different levels, from counting to slope. In English and Spanish.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Building Structures: It's a Slippery Slope
All structures require a foundation to keep them from falling down. This is especially important when a structure is built on a hill or on a slope. In this science project, you will build a tower of Lego Duplos on slopes with different...
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.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Tangent
Learn about the tangent definition in geometry, tangent geometry, tangent to a circle, tangent line equation. Check-out the solved examples for better understanding and try your hand at the tangent line calculator or solving a few...