Stage 21 · Linear Functions

21.1.1 A Refresher: Watching One Variable Move with Another

21.1 From Coordinates to Direct Proportion: The Plainest Kind of Change

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21.1.1 A Refresher: Watching One Variable Move with Another

Core idea

Walk a point across the grid paper once more and feel again that "fix one quantity and the other is settled" — that's exactly what a function y=f(x) means.

Module goal. Building on the coordinate plane and the idea of a function, meet the simplest family of functions — direct-proportion functions — and lock in the core picture: a graph that's a straight line through the origin.
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