Sarah Chandler CIRG 644 Module 5 RAFT

Sarah Chandler

July 29, 2015

Module 5 Demonstration

Assignment: Imagine you are an educational musician that travels to different schools and your latest assignment requires you to write lyrics about either slope intercept form or point slope form. You can either pick a popular song to follow or make up your own tune!  You will be performing in a local high school’s 9^th grade Math I class so this song needs to be catchy enough to grab their attention and explain how the equation works. 

Role: Educational musician

Audience: 9^th grade Math I class

Format: Song

Topic: Slope intercept form OR point slope form

Strong verb: Describe  

Sample:

This song is an original written by The Trigs and was retrieved from songsforteaching.com. It covers both slope intercept and point slope form.

Y=MX+B, That's the slope intercept equation you see
M is the slope, it's an easy one
Just remember that the rise goes over the run
B is the y intercept, it's where the line crosses the y-axis

Put them together and what have you got?
You've got the slope-intercept equation

Chorus:
So let's talk lines and equations
All about points and intercepts
We'll find the slope and we'll use the X
To find the Y that matches it

But what if we don't know B, the slope-intercept is out of reach
So pick a point, and plug it in
To the good old point-slope equation
On the left you've got y minus y one on the right m times x minus x one

So plug it in and solve for Y
And watch the slope-intercept form appear before your very eyes