Lesson Plan: Interpreting Relationships by Drawing Straight Lines Mathematics • 5th Grade

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This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to draw straight-line graphs and interpret the relationships shown.

Objectives

Students will be able to

plot ordered pairs and draw a straight-line graph,
use a graph to answer questions about unknown quantities,
identify rules that relate variables,
use rules to calculate missing values.

Prerequisites

Students should already be familiar with

reading and recording coordinates as ordered pairs,
plotting coordinates.

Exclusions

Students will not cover

negative numbers,
equations of lines,
slopes, gradients, intercepts, and variables,
proportional or linear relationships.