Mrs. Hukill

Moving Straight Ahead

In Moving Straight Ahead your child will be learning about linear relationships. They will learn to recognize a linear relationship in a table, graph and equation. They will use this information to write and solve linear equations. The overall goal of Connected Mathematics is to help students develop sound mathematical habits. Throught their work in this and other units about linear relationships, students learn importnt questions to ask themselves about any situation that can be represented and modeled mathematically, such as:
-What are the variables in the problem?
-Do the variables in the problem have a linear relationship to each other?
-What patterns in the problem suggest that it is linear?
-How can the linear pattern be represented in a problem, in a table, or with an equation?
-How do changes in one variable affect changes in a related variable?
-How can tables, graphs, and equation of linear relationships be used to express and answer questions?