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On Similar Triangles

On Similar Triangles

May 7, 2018

By Ashli Black The fact that a line has a well-defined slope—that the ratio between the rise and run for any two points on the line is always the same—depends on similar triangles. (p.12, 6–8 Progression on Expressions and Equations) As students are building their...

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Why is the graph of a linear function a straight line?

Why is the graph of a linear function a straight line?

Feb 6, 2018

By William McCallum In my last post I wrote about the following standard, and mentioned that I could write a whole blog post about the first comma. 8.F.A.3. Interpret the equation $y = mx + b$ as defining a linear function, whose graph is a straight line; give...

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