Finding Slope from a Table
Slope Vocabulary Words
Writing Line Equations
Identifying Slope and
Y-Intercept
Is this...
100

x 3 4 5 y 5 7 9 Find the slope of the line from the above table


What is a slope of 2

100

Define Slope

What is a constant rate of change or what is rise over run

100

Write an equation for a line with slope 2 y-intercept 0

What is y=2x

100

Identify the slope and y-intercept of the following line y=4x + 6

What is a slope of 4 and a y-intercept of 6

100

Name the association:  As x increases, y decreases

Negative Association

200

x -1 1 3 y 1 7 13 Find the slope of the line from the above table

What is a slope of 3

200

Define y-intercept

What is a point where the line crosses the y-axis

200

Write the equation for a line with a slope of 1.9 and a y-intercept of 2.4

What is y= 1.9x + 2.4

200

Identify the slope of the following line y=9x

What is 9

200

The association when the points are scattered everywhere. 

No Association

300

x 0 -1 -2 y 1 3 5 Find the slope of the line from the table above

What is a slope of -2

300

This data is used to construct a scatter plot.

What is bivariate data. (Data that consists of two variables or two numerical observations.)

300

m=5 b=13 write the equation of the line

What is y=5x + 13

300

Identify the y-intercept of the following line y-1 = 6x

What is 1

300

When the y value stays the same no matter what the value of x is.  

A Constant Association (A horizontal line.)

400

x 1 2 3 y 4 -2 -8

What is a slope of -6

400

What is a straight line drawn through as many data points as possible in a scatter plot.

What is the line of best fit.  

400

Write the equation of a line with an undefined slope

What is y= any value

400

Identify the slope of the following line 3x + y = 8

What is -3

400

Describe what the line would look like showing the school population each day during any given week.  

should be some kind of curve line

500

x 4 3 2 y 8 6 4

What is a slope of 2

500

A collection of points that are close together. 

What is an cluster? 

500

If an apple orchard starts with 32 apples, and every hour some people come by and pick 4 apples, what would the equation be?

y = -4x + 32 OR y = 32 - 4x

Either is correct

500

Identify the slope and y-intercept of the following line 4x +2y = 6

What is a slope of -2 and a y-intercept of 3

500

When a point is very far away from everything else what is that called?

outlier