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🧮 8th Grade · Math8.SP.A.3Unit 9: Bivariate data

Using the model

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🎯 Objective: Students interpret slope and intercept of a linear model.

Lesson outline

  1. Predict.
  2. Interpret.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: one interpretation.

Lesson 3 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.SP.A.3

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Make and interpret scatter plots
  • Fit lines and use two-way tables

✅ 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 “Bivariate data”

  1. Scatter plots
  2. Lines of fit
  3. Using the model
  4. Two-way tables

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