Sebastian Mendez
Professor Little
Math-160-002
4/20/15
Slope Lesson Plan
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Introduction
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Hello, my name is Professor Sebastian Mendez.
Today I am going to teach you slopes. My key learning objectives for the day
are learning what the different variations of linear slopes and how to find the
slope.
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Assuming that the students already learned slope
intercept formula
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What is a slope
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Rise over run
Slope is basically rise over run. Rise is the Y value and Run being the X
value. This is the basic way to find the slope. You can count up the Y value
and X value to get the correct number.
It is important to remember that the rise is over the run.
One way to remember this is the pun: It rises over the run
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Ex:1
In this example the Rise is 6 and the run is 4. 6 divided by 4 equals 1.5
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Different variations of slopes.
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Positive Slope
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Any slope with a positive number
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Negative Slope
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Any slope with a negative number
Any slope with a negative number
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Zero Slope
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Straight line that occurs when the X value
equals a number
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X = 2 or
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Undefined Slope
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Straight line that occurs when the Y value equals
a number
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Ex: Y = 2 or
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You can’t divide by 0 and so the slope is
called undefined
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Slope Formula
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The formula
m = slope
The different y’s and x’s refer to the points given.
(X1,Y1);(X2,Y2)
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Ex:1
(1,2);(1,6)
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Ex:2
(4,6);(4,7)
I like how you used a lot of pictures and examples to explain your concept. Visual learning is always helpful, especially for slopes!
ReplyDeleteSebastian,
ReplyDeleteI though your examples were AWESOME! Great job. I also liked your RISE/RUN!
-Tyler
sebastian,
ReplyDeletereally great lesson. i like all of the images that you used to reinforce the concept of slope. the only thing missing was some kind of real world application, but otherwise, good job. =]
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