Saturday, April 19, 2008

Bringing it on home...

Today we came full circle in our study of graphing, and graphing lines specifically.  We solidified our knowledge of intercepts, y and x, and finally got to look at defining slope as rise over run (or rise/run or "change in y"/"change in x").  And boy did we have some light bulbs go off!

At the end of class the kids got 6 lines to graph using their newfound method of graphing--y-intercept and slope.  They liked it much better than the other ways. :)