Point- Slope Formula in Algebra

We are wrapping up our “More Linear Functions” unit. For the past two years, we have split point-slope formula, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, and direct variation into a second linear functions unit. 

 

On the first day, we kept the notes short and sweet and taught students point-slope formula and how to convert the equation to slope-intercept form. We used the same activity from last year, but I did add “boxes” to the assignment. Teaching students to use “boxes” to help substitute values into the point-slope formula really helped our struggling learners. Click here for previous post.

 

 

 

On the second day, we did a second set of notes and used this new Stations Maze activity where students practiced a combination of point-slope formula problems. Overall, I really liked how we split this topic into two days because it helped break it down for struggling students without overwhelming them.

 

If you have any questions, please leave a comment! I would love to hear any teaching strategies or ideas on how you teach the point-slope formula. I can add it to this post to share with other teachers as well!

 

Click below for the point-slope maze activity!

• Stations Maze Activity

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Solving Linear Inequalities Gallery Walk

Two of my personal goals this school year is to start regularly blogging and to re-join the Twitter community! My goal is to blog every day for the next 2 weeks and share ideas/activities that were successful (someone please hold me accountable lol). I don’t know about any of you guys, but last year, my students did not like to engage with each other. It was rough to get kids to talk to one another or to get students “engaged” in the classroom.

Students completed an error analysis gallery walk to practice solving multi-step inequalities. For this activity, we combined other Algebra 1 classes to help promote student talk. Below are pictures of students collaborating and talking with each other (big teacher YAY). All of the other Algebra 1 teachers said that this was such a fun activity and that we can’t wait to do more like these! 

When students were discussing how to solve inequalities, they were using different strategies (based on other teachers' teaching-methods). This was great to help struggling students who did not understand a particular way of solving multi-step inequalities. Overall, this activity took 10-15 minutes and I would recommend using it if you have those minutes to spare.

Here is the link if you would like to use: CLICK HERE

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