Series Common Core Challenge: Recognizing Linear Functions

Math.8.EE.C.8

Common core State Standards

  • Math:  Math
  • 8:  Grade 8
  • EE:  Expressions & Equations
  • C:  Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
  • 8: 
    Analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations.


    a. Understand that solutions to a system of two linear equations in two variables correspond to points of intersection of their graphs, because points of intersection satisfy both equations simultaneously.


    b. Solve systems of two linear equations in two variables algebraically, and estimate solutions by graphing the equations. Solve simple cases by inspection. For example, 3x + 2y = 5 and 3x + 2y = 6 have no solution because 3x + 2y cannot simultaneously be 5 and 6.


    c. Solve real-world and mathematical problems leading to two linear equations in two variables. For example, given coordinates for two pairs of points, determine whether the line through the first pair of points intersects the line through the second pair.

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Recognizing Linear Functions

Lesson Objective: Understand that the point of intersection of two linear equations is a solution that satisfies both equations in the system and that equations that yield parallel lines have no solution
Grade 8 / Math / Common Core
19 MIN
Math.8.EE.C.8

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  • Private message to Carmen Rich
REALLY great lesson!! I used it the other day & it was incredibly effective!! I had several students tell me they really understood this concept! Thanks for the great idea!!
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It was so helpful for me to see this lesson, as I'll be teaching it later in the year. I'm a special education teacher who is teaching high school resource math and re-learning math so I can teach it. I'm always looking for new ways to teach so that my students can understand it.
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