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🧮 8th Grade · Math8.EE.B.6Unit 2: Dilations, similarity & slope

Slope from similar triangles

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🎯 Objective: Students use similar triangles to show slope is the same anywhere on a line.

Lesson outline

  1. Draw slope triangles.
  2. Compute ratios.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: slope of a line.

Lesson 3 of 3 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.6

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe dilations
  • Use similar triangles to explain slope

✅ 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”.

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More lessons in “Dilations, similarity & slope”

  1. Dilations
  2. Similar figures
  3. Slope from similar triangles

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