Solving for y

Lesson Prep

Lesson Details

• Duration: 50 minutes

• Learning Goal: Understand how to rearrange linear functions into slope-intercept form, and determine the slope and y-intercept of these equations.

Answer Keys

• Link to Answer Keys

Classwork

• Estimation 180 – Day 54 (Andrew Stadel)

• Warm Up

• Notes

• Practice / Spiraling

Standards

Common Core

• HSA.CED.A.4 – Rearrange formulas to highlight a quantity of interest, using the same reasoning as in solving equations. For example, rearrange Ohm’s law V = IR to highlight resistance R.

TEKS

• A.3(A) – determine the slope of a line given a table of values, a graph, two points on the line, and an equation written in various forms, including y = mx + b, Ax + By = C, and y – y1 = m(x – x1)

• A.12(E) – solve mathematic and scientific formulas, and other literal equations, for a specified variable