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Integer Exponents
Represent an exponential growth pattern using exponents and exponential notation.
- Represent visual models of exponential change with integer exponents.
- Interpret exponential functions as visual growth patterns (positive integers) or shrinking patterns (negative integers).
- Levels begin with positive exponential growth and progress to seeing negative integers as an inverse function.
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Linear Balloons Graphs
Change slope and y-intercept values to pop balloons plotted in a straight line.
- Manipulate the y-intercept values that form a line going through balloons plotted on a graph.
- Change the y-intercept and slope on a graph and see how the values change in a linear equation in slope-intercept form.
- Levels begin with visually manipulating the y-intercept so the given line will pop balloons and progress to comparing changes in the graph to changes in the corresponding equation.
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Linear Balloons Tables
Fill in table values and plot points using a linear equation.
- Solve linear equations using a table in slope-intercept form.
- Represent linear equations using tables and graphs.
- Levels begin by finding the y-value on a table, then progress to plotting points using linear equations and y-values.
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Model Graph with Equation
Find the value of the slope and y-intercept in linear equations given a graph of the line.
- Interpret a line’s slope and y-intercept and represent them in a linear equation in slope-intercept form.
- Use changes in x and y-values to identify the slope of a line and the y-intercept of a line as the point where x=0.
- Levels start with slopes = 1 and y-intercepts at the origin and progress to more challenging slopes and y-intercepts.
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Solve Linear Equations
Solve visual equations of the form px = r, where p and x are positive rational numbers (of the form a/b).
- Visual puzzles pose two-step problems that have students work backwards from a given total number of blocks needed and select the starting quantity of blocks.
- Use the visual model to reason about linear relationships px = r where p and x are rational numbers.
- Levels start by posing problems with whole number coefficients, then progress to using rational number coefficients.
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