Slope intercept form notes

Converting equations from standard form to slope-intercept form is challenging for students in the beginning. So, I tried one of my colleagues approach this year and I ended up absolutely LOVING it! Students ended up catching on extremely fast and I'm so thankful that she shared this approach with the rest of the team. First, she tells students that there are two steps in converting equations from standard form to slope-intercept form. The first step is the "X-CITING MOVE" (insert VERY…

Teaching my Prealgebra students how to graph lines in slope intercept form can be challenging. Here are some of my teaching strategies.

Anchor Chart for Slope Intercept Form

My students have such a difficult time keeping track of all the different methods of graphing lines from each form. I use this foldable to help them keep track of the various forms, but I also drill that they can always change it to slope-intercept form. And if they get really desperate, they can just use a table of values to graph everything. I think practicing converting from standard form to slope intercept form is a great way to practice literal equations as well. I use these notes to…

slope-intercept form, point form, standard form of a line, applications of linear equations, examples and step by step solutions, Intermediate Algebra

Practice writing equations by analyzing graphs, and word problems.