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W3D1 Linear Equations From Patterns

Based on an activity from Kate Nowak: http://function-of-time.blogspot.com/2011/08/its-amazing-what-good-night-sleep-will.html I modified it a little but most of the content is hers.

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W3D1 Linear Equations From Patterns

Based on an activity from Kate Nowak: http://function-of-time.blogspot.com/2011/08/its-amazing-what-good-night-sleep-will.html I modified it a little but most of the content is hers.

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Name_________________________________________ Period___________ Date_______________________

W3D1 Patterns, Tables, and Graphs

Case Gray Squares

1. Observe how the pattern grows. What stays the same? What changes? Explain. (If you have no idea where to start, try drawing the next few cases)

2. Summarize the relationship between case number and number of gray squares with a table. (ahemLook up! A table is already started for you.)

3. Show the relationship between case number and number of gray squares with a graph! (Whoa there! Label those axes.) 4. Describe the relationship between case number and number of gray squares with an equation! Are you using letters in that equation?! What do they represent?!! (hint: Represent the parts that stay the same with a number. Represent the parts that change with a letter. You might like x and y, but, you know, whatevs.)

5. What do the numbers in your equation represent, in the context of the cases and gray boxes?

6. Find how many gray squares are needed for the 100th case. (Show all work and be able to explain where your answers came from. You may be asked to share. )

7. Ryan gives you 1000 squares and wants you to make the largest case possible. Lexi thinks she can figure out the largest case number without having to build it. What do you think?

8. On the grid below, carefully graph all of these lines by any means necessary: a. b. c. d. e. What do all of these lines have in common?

You might like the looks the equation better. You can do a little algebra to turn the given equations into . Are you graphing a line without a ruler?! Do you WANT to give Mr. Bigger a heart attack?!

f. Graph the line g. Graph the line

. Plot the point (2, 3) Plot the point (-6, -1)

h. Come up with a different equation for this same line. Another! Another!

9. Without graphing or doing any algebra (none! dont do it!), what point do you know each line passes through? Whats its slope? a) b) c) d)

10. Without doing any algebra, write an equation for a line with the given slope that passes through the given point. a) Slope = , point = (8, 5) b) Slope = , point = (0, 7) c) Slope = , point = (-3, -6)

d) Slope = m, point = (c, d)

11. This is another way to write the equation of a line called point-slope form. Your old pal is called slope-intercept form. Explain why they are called that.

12. Traditionally, point-slope form is written like this: on the line, and is a particular point on the line. Do one algebraic step to solve for :

. Where

is any point

Holy crap! Look familiar?!

13. Sketch and label each line (not line segment) determined by the two given points, and calculate their slopes: a) (0, 6) and (8, 2)

b) (1, 5) and (-3, -3)

c) (-3, 4) and (9, 4)

d) (7, -5) and (7, -8)

e) What does a line look like if its slope is negative? If its slope is positive? If its slope = 0? If its slope is an undefined value? Make a quick sketch below of all four scenarios. Positive Negative Zero Undefined

14. READ CAREFULLY: In part d) above, every point on the line is (7, something). The equation of this line is

Observe the line determined by the points in part c). What is true about the coordinates of every point on that line? What would be the equation of that line? What is the equation of a vertical line that goes through the point a) (-9, 0) b) (2, 6) c) (0, 3)

d) (w, z)

What is the equation of a horizontal line that goes through j) (0, 4) k) (-7, -3) l) (0, 0) m) (p, q)

15. What is true about the coordinates of every point that lies on the x-axis? How could we use that information to find the x-intercept of any line?

Use your trick to find the x-intercept of the line with equation (a) (b) (c) (d)

Neat Stuff 16. Write a table, equation, and graph for the following sequence.

1 3

Case Gray Squares

Equation: (remember to define your variables!)

How many squares needed for case 100?

If we have 1000 squares, what is the largest case we can build?

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