Help

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Study Guide: You should print this and fill it out while working through the lesson.

Prior Knowledge: Help with plotting points and the concepts of slope and intercept.

More Examples & Practice: More examples and practice on problems from each method.

Outside Resources: Links to other lessons on linear graphing on the web.

Further Study: Links to related topics on the web.

Prior Knowledge

Graphing Points: This is my own an interactice Flash lesson on graphing points on the coordinate plane.

Ordered Simple Plot: Practice plotting points in this Java-applet.

Maze Game: Use points to plot a safe path through a mine field.

Slope Formula: From about.com, with related links.

X & Y Intercepts: Lesson from purplemath.com.

Slope of a line: Lesson from purplemath.com.

Slope Slider : Understand slopes better through the use of this java-applet, slope slider.

The Slope of a Line: Intermediate Algebra tutorial from West Texas A&M University.

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More Examples and Practice

Guided Examples: This is a single Flash file with the "guided examples" from each method put together in one place for easy review.

Practice Activity: This is a single Flash movie with the practice section from each of the methods in one place. There are no restrictions, they will go on forever.

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Outside Resources

Graphing With Slope and Y-Intercept: A lesson from math.com.

Graphing Linear Equations: A lesson from math.com.

Graphing Linear Equations: Intermediate Algebra tutorial from West Texas A&M University.

Equations of Lines: Intermediate Algebra tutorial from West Texas A&M University.

Using Slope to Graph a Line: Lesson from purplemath.com.

The meaning of Slope and Y-Intercept: Lesson from purplemath.com.

Excel Linear Equations: Interactice Excel spreadsheet covering the different froms of linear equations.

Straight Lines and Their Equations: From Magic Math.

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Further Study

Slopes as Rates of Change: An application of slopes that is also a basic introduction to concepts in calculus.

Linear Function Machine: Can you find the slope and intercept based on the input and output of the linear function machine?

Graphing Linear Inequalities: Like graphing linear equations with a twist.

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