Algebra 1

Homerun Hoopla

This lesson is designed for students to gather and analyze data about baseball figures. The student will use the Internet or other resources to collect statistical data on the top five home run hitters for the current season as well as their career home run totals. The students will graph the data and determine if it is linear or non-linear.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics)

By Anne Walters.

Investigating Linear Equations

Using a graphic calculator to compare the slope and y-intercept of lines to understand the slope-intercept form (y = mx+b) and what effect each has on a line.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

By Misty Jarman.

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Automobile Mileage: Age vs. Mileage

Students plot data about automobile mileage and interpret the meaning of the slope and y-intercept of the least squares regression line. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Automobile Mileage: Comparing and Contrasting

This lesson allows students the time they need to think about and discuss what they have done in the previous lessons. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Automobile Mileage: Year vs. Mileage

Students plot data about automobile mileage and interpret the meaning of the slope and y-intercept in the resulting equation for the least squares regression line. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Automobile Mileage: Years Since 1990 vs. Mileage

This lesson provides an opportunity for the students to analyze how changing the independent variable in a set of data can result in a different least squares regression line. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Bathtub Water Levels

Students examine real-life data that illustrates a negative slope. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Devil and Daniel Webster

In this lesson, from Illuminations, students examine a recursive sequence. They approximate and interpret rates of change from numerical data and draw reasonable conclusions about the situation being modeled. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics and English Language Arts)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Effects of Outliers

Students investigate the relationship between a set of data points and a line used to fit the data points using a computer-based interactive tool, the Regression Line Applet. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Exploring Linear Data

Students model linear data in a variety of settings. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Exploring linear functions: Representational relationships

This lesson presents a series of explorations based on two linked representations of linear functions. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Gallery Walk

Students view the work of other students in the class and explain their own work. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Gather data

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students explore the development of a mathematical model for the decay of light passing through water, in a rich exploration of exponential models in context. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Make a conjecture

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students explore the development of a mathematical model for the decay of light passing through water, in a rich exploration of exponential models in context. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Movie lines

This Illuminations lesson allows students to apply their knowledge of linear equations and graphs in an authentic situation. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

My Graph Is...

Students select their own real-life data to plot and interpret. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Pedal power

In this Illuminations lesson, students compare, contrast, and make conjectures based on distance-time graphs for three bicyclists climbing to the top of a mountain. They determine the slopes of the graphs and interpret them as rates of change. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Pick's theorem as a system of equations

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students gather three examples from a geoboard or other representation to generate a system of equations. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Rediscovering the patterns in Pick's Theorem

In this lesson, the first in a series from Illuminations, students use a geoboard, geoboard applet, or Geometer's Sketchpad to discover the pattern of Pick's Theorem. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Reflect on your work

In this lesson, students examine, re-examine, and compare the results obtained in previous lessons to enrich their mathematical understanding. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics