Designed for seventh- and eighth-grade math classes, the review activity found at SMART Exchange online helps prepare students for the Benchmark exam. This review, created for the Smartboard Notebook, helps students learn to make graphs of linear equations and to interpret the data found in a table. The review focuses on the premise that linear equations, graphs and tables exist together. Given a table, a student can then write a linear equation or construct a table. Students can use the Smartboard Notebook to explore various linear function graphs. SMART Exchange online also has another activity, titled, Graphing Linear Equations for grades eight through 10.
This Smartboard Notebook lesson is designed for grades eight and nine. According to SMART Exchange online where the lesson is found, students can visually see how changing the slope from positive to zero to negative effects the line. Students will also notice how the line moves up and down as they change the y-intercept. Students can interact with the changing slope and y-intercept as they investigate the range of m and b on an interactive graph on the Smartboard Notebook.
The purpose of this activity is to help students explore the purpose of building patterns incrementally. This activity, found at SMART Exchange, offers instructions on how to solve linear equations related to patterns. Students can explore the number string, become familiar with various ways of adding it and predict the patterns. Student can vary the number of layers and cuts on a string to determine the rule that describes the number of pieces of string, according to the Smartboard Notebook lesson preview. This linear function lesson is created for grades six through nine.
Graphing Linear Equations in Slope Intercept Form is a linear function lesson created by Jessica Requidan of Fort Dorchester High School. The lesson, created for the Smartboard Notebook and grades nine and 10, can be found at SMART Exchange online. Students will learn how to demonstrate an understanding of the graphs and the characteristics of linear equations and equalities. Students will interact on the Notebook with the changes of the m slope and the y-intercept, b, on the graph of y=mx+b. Students that need a little boost can use the TI 83 calculator.