Activity
University of North Carolina

University North Carolina Wilmington: Inverse Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Take a look at inverse functions from their definition to graphing them. This site also shows you how to find the inverse of a function.
Unit Plan
The Math League

The Math League: Using Data and Statistics

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site contains two short examples of line graphs, charts that show change over time. This is a quick introduction to the topic of statistical graphing.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Graphs of Linear Equations

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn to use a table to graph functions recognizing linear equations and the equations of horizontal lines and vertical lines. Students examine guided...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Defining the Parabola

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The teacher will graph a horizontal line and plot a point using TI-Navigator, and the class will provide the points that create a parabola.
Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Intercepts

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to find the x and y intercepts of a linear function, to graph the function using the intercepts, and to graph vertical and horizontal lines. The tutorial offers many examples with clear step-by-step examples.
Website
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: Learning About Landscapes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Take a look at aspects of drawing landscapes from horizontal lines to titles of some landscapes on display in the Birmingham Art Gallery.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mondrian, Composition With Red, Blue, and Yellow

For Students 9th - 10th
Piet Mondrian's painting, "Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow", is a collection of rectilinear forms, squares, and rectangles defined by vertical and horizontal lines. His style is called Neo-Plasticism or "The New Plastic Painting"....
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: 10 X 10 Ice Cream Adventure

For Students 3rd - 6th
10 x 10 is a fun puzzle game for the whole family! Help Mr. Pebbles score points by dragging the ice cream into the grid to fill up vertical and horizontal lines. There are lots of tasty ice cream treats to help you along the way!
Handout
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Reflections and Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the various types of symmetries that can occur in the graphs of functions. Uses vertical, horizontal, and oblique reflections as a means of recognizing symmetries.
Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Graphing Lines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Complete this tutorial to learn how to graph a straight line if given the y-intercept and slope and how to graph horizontal and vertical lines. View examples of lines with different slopes, and practice working with slope-intercept form.
Activity
California State University

Ca State University, San Bernadino: Graphing Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of math graphing techniques includes horizontal and vertical shifts, stretching, lines of symmetry, even and odd functions, and absolute value functions.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Implicit Differentiation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students differentiate an equation in two variables with respect to one. They calculate points where the tangent line is horizontal, vertical, or oblique and use the graphing capacity of the TI-89 to display the graph of the implicit...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe.5 Triangles Inscribed in Circle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students use ideas about linear functions to determine when certain angles are right angles. They use the fact that two lines (if not vertical or horizontal) are perpendicular when their slopes are inverse reciprocals, as...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Elements of Art: Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
These Java applet review games help students with art vocabulary terms by matching, concentration, flashcards, and word-search games.
Handout
Other

Georgia Perimeter College: Parabolas

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an examination of parabolas, both vertical and horizontal, and parabolic functions. It includes six examples and a chart showing how changes in the equation coincide with changes in the graph.
Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Inverse Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The sample problems and solutions in this tutorial will show you what an inverse function is: how to find one, how to graph a function and its inverse, and how to determine whether a function has an inverse.
Graphic
The Franklin Institute

Frankin Institute Online: Group Graphing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site from The Franklin Institute explores how to make a simple graph using a spreadsheet to portray survey data. It also gives a set of interesting sports-related web sites so that students can get statistical inforamtion.
Graphic
Other

Hop's Gallery: Perspective Study

For Students 9th - 10th
This webpage explores traditional perspective drawings as well as contemporary drawings, focusing on their use of horizontal and vertical lines.
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Real World Investigation: Elevation Changes [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Math and geography are the focus of this internet investigation. Learners must plan a road trip to several cities and plot the elevations of those cities using a line graph. Acrobat Reader required.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Symmetry Challenge

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sharpen your logic, symmetry, and pattern recognition skills while working on this challenge. Solution included.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Happy Halving

For Students 1st - 2nd
On this one page website expand your logic, symmetry and pattern recognition knowledge while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Lesson Plan
OER Commons

Oer Commons: Model Integer Addition

For Students 7th
In this OER Commons resource students will use the Hot Air Balloon interactive to model integer addition. They then move to modeling addition on horizontal number lines. They look for patterns in their work and their answers to...
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...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Linear Functions: Slope With Grid

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn to impose a grid on a line to quantify the steepness of a line. They learn that slope is the ratio of vertical change divided by the horizontal change. They also learn that lines can have slope that are positive, zero,...

Other popular searches