Day 59: Dependent and Independent Variables

Students in Math 6 and Math 6+ today worked with Lesson 4.8: Understand Dependent and Independent Variables. The lesson provides a nice connection to science for later on in the year.

We connect these two variables to mathematics by looking at prices, speeds, distances traveled and determine how they relate with other factors. Variables can be used to represent quantities that change in relationships to one another. The dependent variable changes in response to the independent variables.

Lesson Objectives: The student will be able to...

• use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem that change in relationship to one another.
• analyze the relationship between the dependent and independent variables.