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Texas Instruments: Linear Functions: Slope Intercept Form
Students learn to develop the equation of a line from its graph. They also learn to write the equation of a line from the slope and the y-intercept, a point and the slope, and two points. They also investigate slopes of lines that are...
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.
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Texas Instruments: Using Activity Center: Slope/y Intercepts of Linear Equation
The teacher will submit an equation using activity center but will not show the students the equation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Slope Slider
This activity allows the user to explore the relationship between slope and intercept in the Cartesian coordinate system.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Human Slope
Students will participate in this discovery activity intended for them to uncover the role each variable plays in the graph of a line in the form y = mx + b. Students will actually demonstrate lines in slope intercept form on a life size...
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Linear Functions, Slope and Regressions
Find activities here for linear functions, slopes and regression lines. Use them for classroom work or individual assignments.
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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.
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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.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Spaghetti Bridges: Teacher Notes
Students build bridges and test their strength to collect data and write an equation. The concept of slope is explored in this activity.
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Texas Instruments: Introduction to Slope and Intercepts Partner Activity
This partner activity is designed to have pre-Algebra students or Algebra 1 students compare and contrast different screen shots and begin to develop concepts needed to describe slope and intercepts.
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Texas Instruments: Idenitfying Slope and Y Intercept
Short quiz on identifying slope and y-intercept given a linear equation.
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Texas Instruments: Activity Center Golf Course
There are nine activity settings. Each one is a different hole of golf. Each setting contains a background photograph of a golf course with a white ball and a hole with a numbered flag coming out of it. Students must submit the equation...
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Texas Instruments: Y=ax Activity
This activity, inspired by a similar activity in a Texas Instrument guidebook, has served to be very useful in helping students develop concepts of slope and y-intercept.
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Texas Instruments: Glencoe Science: Endothermic and Exothermic Process
Students can use TI graphing calculators and data collection to find equations of lines using slope-intercept format and graph.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Intercept of a Line
A complete reference guide to finding the intercept of a line. It provides definitions, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
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Texas Instruments: Investigating Y=mx+b
Students use a graphing calculator to explore graphs of equations in slope-intercept form.
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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...
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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.
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Texas Instruments: Y=mx+b Quick Check
In this activity students use an activity center to input equations with correct slope and y-intercept.
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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.
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...