Gradient intro

Today our learners were building their knowledge bank about straight lines, in particular, X and Y axes and gradient.

Remember "Y to the sky" (meaning that the Y axis goes straight up). The X axis runs across and the letter "x" looks like a cross,



so after discussing X and Y axis the first point of discussion was:
Define gradient. Learners looked up the meaning on Google and there was a general consensus that SLOPE was the best definition and easiest to remember.

I wrote the word slope like this slope

and learners had to discuss the way the word was written.

the letter 'l"  was extra long indicating moving up or down and the Y axis first and the letter "e" represented the X axis running across, so gradient means move along the Y axis first, then the X axis.


the gradient of this line is 3/5