Making Sense of Slope

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• Making Sense of Slope - Exit Ticket.pdf - 82 kB
• Making Sense of Slope Activity Sheet.pdf - 112 kB
• Making Sense of Slope Lesson Plan.pdf - 240 kB

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Title	Making Sense of Slope
Description	In this activity, students are asked to experiment with slope using the Graphing Lines sim. They will draw triangles showing vertical change and horizontal change to see how the visual slope of a line on a coordinate graph relates to the mathematical slope.
Subject	Mathematics
Level	Middle School
Type	Guided Activity
Duration	60 minutes
Answers Included	No
Language	English
Keywords	Slope, similar triangles and slope, slope formula
Simulation(s)	Graphing Lines (HTML5), Graphing Lines

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Author(s)	Jim Freund
Contact Email	jim.freund@bvsd.org
School / Organization	Horizons K-8 School, Boulder ,CO
Date submitted	6/6/18
Date updated	6/6/18