Learners participate in an activity to simulate direct variation. In this oil spills on land lesson, students participate in a simulation using toilet paper and vegetable oil to explore the characteristics of direct variation. They...

Students identify inverse variations. In this inverse variation instructional activity, students explore graphs and identify the inverse variation. They write equations for the inverse variation. Students compare and contrast the...

In this variation instructional activity, students solve 9 short answer problems. Students use inverse variation to find missing values given an algebra sentence or two ordered pairs.

In this variation worksheet, students solve twenty-two direct, inverse, or joint variation problems.  Answers to the first fifteen problems are provided.