Tying in Vocabulary

Students reported that the review of math vocabulary is important to understanding the question.

This was brought to light on Monday when the words "initial value" was used in place of "y-intercept".

Today, while students created graphs, equations, and tables for three space ships in a race,

I had them write their statement using as many of the following vocabulary words that they could.

function

linear

slope

rate of change

y-intercept

initial value

proportional

Here is an example of one student's work.

"Spaceship #3 will win. The slope of the function is greater than the other linear proportional functions. It makes it proportional because the initial, or y-intercept, is 0."