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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Linear Equations Game

For Teachers 8th - 9th
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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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Fast Does Water Travel Through Soils?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
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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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Measuring Lava Flow

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Matching the Motion

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Handheld Trigonometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Variables and Graphs: What's Our Story?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars learn how to quickly and efficiently interpret graphs, which are used for everyday purposes as well as engineering analysis.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Challenge Question: "Walk the Line"

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Graphing Equations on the Cartesian Plane: Slope

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Predicting the Effects of Changing Slope in Problem Situations

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Equations of Lines

For Students 9th - 10th
Given two points, the slope and a point, or the slope and the y-intercept, the student will write linear equations in two variables.
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Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Slope 2

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Handout
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

Npac Reu Program: Slope & Line Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Graphic
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Lines and Slope: Chameleon Graphing

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Join Joan the chameleon in an exploration of lines and slope. You'll be drawing lines, calculating slope, using equations and more!
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eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: The Regression Equation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Determining Slopes From Equations, Graphs, and Tables

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Given algebraic, tabular, and graphical representations of linear functions, the student will determine the slope of the relationship from each of the representations.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Determining the Meaning of Intercepts

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Developing the Concept of Slope

For Students 7th - 8th
Given multiple representations of linear functions, the student will develop the concept of slope as a rate of change.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Coordinate Geometry: Slope

For Students 9th - 10th
Given coordinate points, the student will use slope formulas to solve problems.
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Handout
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Lines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Handout
Other

South Africa: Soil Erosion

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough explanation of erosion including causes of soil erosion, water erosion, and water erosion.
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Website
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun Mathematics Lessons

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource has mathematics lessons for different levels, from counting to slope. In English and Spanish.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Building Structures: It's a Slippery Slope

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
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Interactive
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Equations of a Line (Slope and Intercept Form)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Tangent

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...