Dear Girls and Boys,
Homework: Read this blog, watch the videos and take notes in your video notebook. We are having a "STRUT YOUR STUFF" assessment on THURSDAY from lessons 1.5- 1.8 - proportions to slope! ASK QUESTIONS! There will probably be a vocabulary quiz as well.
We have finally made it...... to SLOPE! You probability have heard of slope of the line and even if you have not, you will learn more about a line than you could possibly ever want to know! Well, slope is a line that is measured by how steep it is. A textbook definition will define slope as the ratio of the change in y-value over the change in x - value. I think this is totally confusing. And slope can be confusing as it uses the y first and then the x- where ordered pairs are ( x,y) where you use the x first and then the y. Are you confused yet????? Well, when I think of slope, I think of steepness- and this is the y ( y goes up and down or the rise up and down ). So, in slope, you are doing the
RISE over the RUN - Rise/Run.
Slope =Rise(y) / Run(x)
This little black bunny is Miss Granger........ She is telling Liv that she likes her food! What a cutie.
As always in MATH,
Mrs. M
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