Unit Plan
US Department of Education

National Center for Education Statistics: Create a Graph Tutorial

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial walks students through how to create different types of graphs using the Create a Graph tool available on the website. Covers bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, area graphs, scatter plots, and dependent and independent...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Interpreting Stories and Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
This interactive exercise focuses on how line graphs can be used to represent mathematical data and provides an opportunity to translate actions from a story into graph form, then to write your own story to coincide with a line graph.
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.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Lines in the Coordinate Plane Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive study guide highlights the main terms and formulas needed to review lines in the coordinate plane. Examples are included.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Parallel & Perpendicular Lines From Graph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given points that two lines go through or the graph of each line, classify the lines as parallel, perpendicular, or neither.
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Graphing Linear Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use this guide to practice graphing linear functions using Claris Works with your students. The lesson walks you through the process of setting up Claris Works step-by-step.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Vertical Line Test

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about the vertical line test for functions by trying to connect points in the plane to build a function. When you have connected all of the points, you will be told if your graph is a valid graph of a function.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Logical Leaps: Graphing Inequalities: Fractions, Mixed Numbers, and Decimals

For Students 6th - 8th
In this interactive, use logic to solve three riddles involving a jumping frog competition. Then, using knowledge of inequalities and rational numbers, place the frogs in the correct range from 0 to 5 on a number line. The fractions,...
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PBS

Pbs: Logical Leaps: Graphing Inequalities: Fractions and Decimals From 0 to 1

For Students 6th - 8th
In this interactive, use logic to solve three riddles involving high-jump performers in a flea circus. Then, using knowledge of inequalities, place the fleas in the appropriate range on a vertical number line. Numbers are randomized so...
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.
Lesson Plan
Student Achievement Partners

Illustrative Mathematics: Equations of Lines [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
In this instructional activity, students are to interpret graphs with equations of lines.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Lines in the Coordinate Plane Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This study guide on lines in a coordinate plane covers key terms, what different line slopes look like, postulates about parallel and perpendicular lines, the slope-intercept equation, how to graph parallel and perpendicular lines, and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Graphing Linear Functions Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Graph the line that represents a real-world relationship that is given verbally. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Meaning of Slope for a v T Graph

For Students 9th - 10th
In this part of a physics lesson, examine how the actual slope value of any straight line on a velocity-time graph is the acceleration of the object.
Unit Plan
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Equation of a Straight Line

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This math tutorial shows the relationship of a slope to a straight line and how to write equations in point-slope or slope-intercept form.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: The Intersection of Two Lines

For Teachers 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is to introduce students to systems of equations. It takes skills and concepts that students know up to this point, such as writing the equation of a given line, and uses it to introduce the idea that the...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 3.3 Inverse Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section explores the process for finding inverses of functions, and then proving the function and its inverse algebraically. Additionally, it explores how the graphs of functions and their inverses compare to each other, and it...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Graphing the Rainbow

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students are introduced to different ways of displaying visual spectra, including colored "barcode" spectra, like those produced by a diffraction grating, and line plots displaying intensity versus color, or wavelength. Students learn...
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Cultivating Data

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will understand key concepts of data analysis and their graphic representations. Students will construct and interpret data tables, line plots, box-and-whisker plots and stem-and-leaf plots, scatterplots with line of best fit,...
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EL Education

El Education: A Field Guide to East Bog Swamp

For Teachers 5th - 6th
This micro-field guide was created by 5th and 6th graders in Marlboro, Vermont. Groups of 3 or 4 students worked together to investigate their own 3 by 3 foot research plot, over multiple visits, and then created a field guide to their...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Beating Usain Bolt

For Students 6th - 8th
Use mathematics to determine what is required to beat world champion Usain Bolt in a 200-meter race. This video focuses on systems of equations that are visualized by completing a table of values and looking for a point of intersection...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Overruled

For Students 6th - 8th
See if the King, Queen, or one of their loyal subjects can figure out how to solve the problem of their crummy bridge. This animated video from Math Snacks focuses on using what you know about converting measurements and reading a line...
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Regression Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of lesson ideas, a practice activity, and teacher resources for exploring regression analysis.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Collecting Data and Making Predictions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given an experimental situation, the student will write linear functions that provide a reasonable fit to data to estimate the solutions and make predictions.

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