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🧮 8th Grade · Math8.EE.B.5Unit 3: Linear relationships

Proportional relationships revisited

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🎯 Objective: Students compare proportional relationships shown in different ways.

Lesson outline

  1. Compare two phone plans.
  2. Interpret unit rate as slope.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: which is faster?

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

8.EE.B.5

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 8 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Graph proportional relationships and interpret slope
  • Write y = mx + b from graphs, tables and situations

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Linear equations📚 All 8th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Linear relationships”

  1. Proportional relationships revisited
  2. Slope
  3. y = mx + b
  4. Graphing linear equations

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