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ABE/ASE LESSON PLANS

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Texas Adult Education Standards
Lesson Plan

Before you begin

Title: Different Slopes for Different Folks

Setting: ABE/ASE

NRS Level(s):

Level 5: Low Adult Secondary Education
Level 6: High Adult Secondary Education

Open entry/exit: Yes

Context: Community

Standard(s): Use Math to Solve Problems and Communicate

Benchmark(s): 3.5, 3.6

Objective: To identify, graph, and find positive and negative slope as well as use the y-intercept formula to graph the equation and find the distance between the points.

Materials: White board/markers, pencils, graph paper, slope intercept formula and distance formula

Estimated time needed to prepare for this lesson plan: 10 minutes

Estimated time needed to complete this lesson plan: 2 hours

The Lesson Plan

Introduce the lesson:
Rene Descartes, a famous Frenchman, was a drunk. During one of his stupors, he lay on the couch and saw the cracks in the ceiling and the flies moving from one crack to another and Ah-Ha… He invented the coordinate grid.

Teach the lesson:
You will identify the positive and negative slopes from the worksheet and illustrate the y-intercept and distance formulas as well as graph the formulas.

Practice the lesson:
Get into small groups and practice with examples to determine the negative and positive slopes. Use both formulas to graph equations.

Assess the lesson:
Each group will discuss their findings with the other groups.

Apply the lesson to the real world:
The slope is found in weather reports, in geography (how high does the water tank have to be on the hill in order to gravity feed water into the stock tank), in the Census Bureau, and construction (stairs).

Submitted by: Gaye Carroll and Maye Sutton

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