Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Strategies for determining slope and y-intercept of a linear model.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Represent contextual and mathematical situations involving bivariate measurement data with a linear relationship algebraically and graphically.
- Use mathematical vocabulary to describe and interpret slopes and y-intercepts of lines which represent contextual situations involving bivariate data.
- Make predictions about unobserved data using the equation and graph.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Modeling bivariate data with scatter plots and fitting a straight line to the data can aid in interpretation of the data and predictions about unobserved data.
Vocabulary
- Linear model
- Bivariate measurement data
- Slope
- y-intercept
