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Introduction to Linear Polynomials · Linear patterns, growth and decay · 3:50

You'll learn: Use a stage rule in both directions.

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Find a Distant Stage—or Work Back from the Tile Count

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Find a Distant Stage—or Work Back from the Tile Count

You'll learn: Use a stage rule in both directions.

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Linear patterns, growth and decay

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See Why the Tile Pattern Has 2n−1 Tiles
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See Why the Tile Pattern Has 2n−1 Tiles
You'll learn: Connect the growing picture, a value table and a general rule.
Pocket Money Can Follow a Decreasing Linear Pattern
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Pocket Money Can Follow a Decreasing Linear Pattern
You'll learn: Build and interpret a decreasing rule and solve for a target balance.
Why the Auto Fare Rule Starts After the First Two Kilometres
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Why the Auto Fare Rule Starts After the First Two Kilometres
You'll learn: Separate the initial flat fare from later per-kilometre charges.
Can Area and Volume Have Linear Rules?
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Can Area and Volume Have Linear Rules?
You'll learn: Show how fixing other dimensions makes area or volume linear in one changing dimension.
Recognise Linear Growth from Equal Increases
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Recognise Linear Growth from Equal Increases
You'll learn: Read starting value and constant increase from a context and a table.
Recognise Linear Decay from Equal Decreases
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Recognise Linear Decay from Equal Decreases
You'll learn: Model a quantity falling by the same amount per time interval.

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Growth and decay practice

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Model a Growing Plant and a Growing Village
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Model a Growing Plant and a Growing Village
You'll learn: Form increasing rules, make tables and predict future values.
Model a Phone’s Falling Value and a Prepaid Balance
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Model a Phone’s Falling Value and a Prepaid Balance
You'll learn: Form decreasing rules and interpret an exhaustion or depreciation calculation.

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Finding linear relationships

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Find a Fixed Fee and a Per-GB Charge from Two Bills
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Find a Fixed Fee and a Per-GB Charge from Two Bills
You'll learn: Build two conditions and recover the parameters in y=ax+b.
Recover Pricing Rules for Learning Modules and Court Time
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Recover Pricing Rules for Learning Modules and Court Time
You'll learn: Transfer the two-observation method to other fixed-fee situations.
Build the Celsius–Fahrenheit Relationship
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Build the Celsius–Fahrenheit Relationship
You'll learn: Use two known temperature pairs to determine a and b.

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Graphs, slope and intercept

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Draw a Linear Relationship Using Two Points
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Draw a Linear Relationship Using Two Points
You'll learn: Turn an equation into coordinate pairs and draw the corresponding straight line.
Does a Point Belong to the Line?
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Does a Point Belong to the Line?
You'll learn: Complete a value table and verify point membership by substitution.
Read a Linear Rule from Its Plotted Points
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Read a Linear Rule from Its Plotted Points
You'll learn: Identify a coordinate relationship from positive and negative input-output pairs.
What Does a Positive Slope Change?
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What Does a Positive Slope Change?
You'll learn: Compare rising lines through the origin and relate coefficient size to steepness.