Linear Behavior

The Linear Behavior module gives students experience in working with real-world data. Students will be able to read, organize, identify and interpret data that fits a linear model. Students will use technology to find the line of best fit. Lesson 1 Costs of Higher Education Using data about average salary and level of education, students learn to set appropriate scales for drawing graphs. Students use a strand of spaghetti to estimate the line of best fit. Lesson 2 The Price is Going Up Students investigate the relationship between slope, arithmetic growth, and common difference. Lesson 3 Body Graphing Students physically act out being coordinates on a line. Students investigate intercepts, slope, parallel and perpendicular lines. Lesson 4 A Business Venture Students investigate increasing and decreasing lines and zero and undefined slopes. Lesson 5 The Bouncing Ball Students collect data for use in examining linear behavior and making predictions. They learn to distinguish between dependent and independent variables. Lesson 6 Shrimp Dinners and Function Machines Students develop formulas for linear behavior and learn to use symbolic representation of input/output machines. Lesson 7 Driving Us Crazy Students determine that slope is a constant along the graph of a linear equation. Lesson 8 Get That Degree! Students use a graphing calculator to display data and determine a formula for the line of best fit. Lesson 9 Who Gives a Chirp? Students distinguish between formula domain and range and problem domain and range. Students work backward from a given output to find the corresponding input. Lesson 10 It Fits! Story Time Students examine some examples of non-linear behavior. Students examine the relationships between graphs and verbal descriptions. Compare this module to traditional course topics in the Matrix of Course Competencies. If one of the lessons has a link, you can preview that lesson. Other modules: Beat Ratios Functions Exp. Growth Data & Graphs Representing Data Finance Geometry Sampling Non-linear Behavior Linear Behavior Sets and Logic Patterns Probability Systems Right Tri. Trig.