Today Carson and I met on Teams. We have been working with linear equations lately. Today I wanted to show Carson how linear equations could be used in real world applications. We worked on problems like "You deposit $100 into an account. Each week you deposit $5 more. How many weeks will it take to have $310 in your account?" Carson is good at solving these problems, but he has difficultly setting up the equation. We discussed dependent and independent variables. In this case the amount of money (in dollars) depends on the amount of time (in weeks). We discussed rates of change. In this case, the rate is $5 per week. We set up the equation y=5x+100 where y represents dollars and x represents weeks. To answer the question, we substituted y=310 and used inverse operations to solve for x. We practiced multiple problems of this nature, emphasizing dependent and independent variables.