Patterns in Linear Equations
Strand: Patterns and Relations (Patterns)
Outcomes: 1 and 2
Step 2: Determine Evidence of Student Learning
Guiding Questions
- What evidence will I look for to know that learning has occurred?
- What should students demonstrate to show their understanding of the mathematical concepts, skills and Big Ideas?
Using Achievement Indicators
As you begin planning lessons and learning
activities, keep in mind ongoing ways to monitor
and assess student learning. One starting point
for this planning is to consider the achievement
indicators listed in the Mathematics Kindergarten
to Grade 9 Program of Studies with Achievement
Indicators. You may also generate your
own indicators and use them to guide your observation
of the students.
The following indicators may be used to determine
whether or not students have met specific outcomes
1 and 2. Can students:
- write an expression representing a given
pictorial, oral or written pattern?
- write a linear equation to represent a given
context?
- describe a context for a given linear equation?
- solve, using a linear equation, a given
problem that involves pictorial, oral and
written linear patterns?
- write a linear equation representing the
pattern in a given table of values, and verify
the equation by substituting values from the
table?
- describe
the pattern found in a given graph?
- graph a given linear relation, including
horizontal and vertical lines?
- match given equations of linear relations
with their corresponding graphs?
- extend a given graph (extrapolate) to determine
the value of an unknown element?
- interpolate the approximate value of one
variable on a given graph, given the value
of the other variable?
- extrapolate the approximate value of one
variable from a given graph, given the value
of the other variable?
- solve a given problem by graphing a linear
relation and analyzing the graph?
Sample behaviours to look for related to these
indicators are suggested for some of the activities
listed in Step 3, Section C:
Choosing Learning Activities.