This document provides examples and explanations for calculating rates of change, slopes, and describing slopes of lines based on data points or graphs. It includes examples of finding the rate of change and slope from tables of data, graphs of data points, and geometric descriptions of lines. Students are asked to identify rates of change, calculate slopes, and describe slopes as positive, negative, zero or undefined. The greatest rate of change is represented by the steepest line segment on a graph. The constant rate of change of a line is called its slope.