Slope & Linear Relationships

Two arcade review games and compact teaching points for slope, equations, and linear relationships.

Start with these classroom-ready activities for focused practice or review.

Arcade Game

Algebra City Run

Students navigate neon rooftops while answering questions on expressions, equations, inequalities, and selected slope and linear relationship skills.

Play Algebra City Run
Arcade Game

Slope Street Sprint

Students race through 10 question gates covering slope, y-intercept, rate of change, and linear functions.

Play Slope Street Sprint

Teaching linear relationships

Use these points to frame instruction, discussion, or a quick debrief.

Representations

Connect a constant rate of change across a table, graph, equation, and verbal situation.

Slope

Interpret slope as rise over run and as the rate at which one quantity changes with another.

Equations

In y = mx + b, connect m to slope and b to the initial value or y-intercept.

Compare relationships

Use graphs, tables, and equations to distinguish proportional relationships from linear relationships with a nonzero initial value.

Try This in Class

After a game question, ask students to show the same relationship in a second representation—for example, sketch the graph of an equation or write an equation from two points.

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