Rate of Change: Graphs

Geared toward eighth-grade learners, this two-page algebra worksheet challenges students to read graphs of linear functions to find the rate of change. The Rate of Change: Graphs worksheet begins with an example demonstrating how to find the rate of change of a linear function on a graph by dividing the change in y by the change in x for two points on the graph. Students will apply this to several practice problems and then compare rates of change across graphs to determine which graph has the greater rate of change.