What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can find the gradient of a line using change in y ÷ change in x
- I can explain that in y = mx + c, m is the gradient
- I can recognise that any straight line can be written in the form y = mx + c
Practise this topic
2 resources🕹️ Topic game
Gradient Golf
Eighteen holes of mini golf on a grid where every shot is aimed with a gradient: count the squares from the ball to the hole, type the gradient (whole numbers, fractions, decimals, or undefined from the drop-down), then choose…
🧮 ToolGraph Plotter
A graphing calculator: type y = f(x), x = g(y), implicit relations such as x² + y² = 25, inequalities (shaded, dashed for < and solid for ≤), parametric and polar curves, points and tables, functions f(x) = … with f′(x), and…
These are the pages for The Gradient in the Year 8 scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel Maths Progress Delta 2. Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.