MSA - Study Guide for Unit Assessment - 2016

Preparation Guide for

Moving Straight Ahead Unit Test

Essential Learnings - students should know how to:

• Translate information about linear relationships given a table, a graph, or an equation to one of the other forms.

• Solve problems and make decisions about linear relationships using information given in tables, graphs, and equations.

Additionally students should be able to:

• Construct tables, graphs and symbolic equations.
• Recognize linear relationships
• Solve an equation for an unknown.
• Find x or y when you substitute in the other value in an equation.
• Find the slope of a line given two points on a line or given an equation.
• Find point of intersection of two lines given a graph, a table or two equations.
• Find y-intercept when given an equation.
• Be able to use and understand the vocabulary terms we have learned in class such as linear relationship, point of intersection, y-intercept, slope, coefficient, rise, run, horizontal, vertical, coordinate pair, etc.

Focus questions/ problems - students should study by reviewing & redoing the following:

• The packet with 20 practice problems solving for x.
• These specific sections from the Moving Straight Ahead book; Problem 1.2, Problem 1.3, Problem 3.4, Problem 3.5 & Problem 4.2.

The test prep practice sheets from class, Click here to access

Review Packet Answer Key

Challenge Sites

Climbing Monkeys -Click here to access

Brain Bashers- Skyscrapers - Click here to access

Ken Ken - Click here to access.

Web Sudoku - Click here to access

Linear Equation Extra Practice.

Here is a 20 problem work packet on solving linear equations.  Students should work their way through this and complete it by Friday June 3rd  

Click here to access the Linear Equation Problem Packet.

Investigation #3 - Moving Straight Ahead Notes

Click here to access some notes on Solving Linear Equations

Solving equations using Inverse Operations

Nice pdf of how to solve Linear Equations

with the Inverse Operations.

Click here to access

Linear Equation Games

Save the Zogs - Click Here

Algebra vs Cockroach

Save our Planet

Online Set Game

Click here to access the online Set Game

Rules

The object of the game is to identify a 'Set' of three cards from 12 cards laid out on the table. Each card has a variation of the following four features:

1) COLOR: Each card is red, green, or blue.
2) SYMBOL: Each card contains ovals, squiggles, or diamonds.
3) NUMBER: Each card has one, two, or three symbols.
4) SHADING: Each card is solid, open, or striped. 

A 'Set' consists of three cards in which each feature is EITHER the same on each card OR is different on each card. That is to say, any feature in the 'Set' of three cards is either common to all three cards or is different on each card.

Examples of sets:

1) color: different on each card, symbol: the same on each card (oval), number: the same on each (two),shading: the same on each card (solid)
2) color: different on each card, symbol: different on each card, number: different on each card, shading: different on each card
3) color: the same on each card (green), symbol: the same on each card (diamond), number: different on each card, shading: different on each card