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| A Florida Vacation: | Students will calculate sales tax to plan a family vacation budget. Through collaborative learning activities and discussions, students will understand the concept of sales tax as a civic responsibility and recognize the importance of considering sales tax in their financial planning to contribute to their community’s public service and infrastructure in this integrated lesson plan. |
| Debugging the Electoral College-Lesson 3: | This is the final lesson in a 3-lesson unit. In this lesson, students will review the Electoral College by debugging and improving upon a Scratch simulation of a presidential election map. Students will also apply their knowledge of variables and inequalities through the debugging process. |
| Debugging the Electoral College-Lesson 2: | This is lesson 2 of a 3-lesson unit. In this lesson, students learn about how variables and inequalities are used in both math and computer science through the exploration of how a win/loss is calculated in an Electoral College model/simulator. |
| How Will the Ninja Capture the Valuable Princess?: | This lesson allows students to solve two-step equations involving a mythological story line in which the princess (variable) is protected by a bodyguard (number added or subtracted in an equation) and by a protector (number multiplied or divided by the variable). The three characters live in a castle, surrounded by the moat (equal sign) and an innocent bystander that lives outside the castle (number on the opposite side of the variable). However, Ninjas are infiltrating the castle to steal the “valuable” princess. Using this story line, students must then decide who the Ninja must eliminate first to get to the princess. This lesson can also be used to solve equations with like terms on the same side and equations with the same variable on each side. |
| Lost in Translation? Verbal and Algebraic Representations of Expressions and Equations: | This lesson is designed to assist in teacher facilitation of student understanding related to the concept of translating between verbal and algebraic two-step equations. |
| HOORAH!! Pizza For Lunch: | The principal of Central Middle School is thinking of adding pizza to the lunch menu on Mondays and Fridays but needs help deciding the costs per slice and what students think is important about the pizza. After the students' initial decision about the pizza the principal remembers that there is a delivery charge.The students must revisit their decision and do additional calculations to see if their original process still works.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Company Charges: | In this lesson, students will learn how to write and solve linear equations that have one solution, infinitely many solutions, and no solutions. As the students decipher word problems, they will recognize which elements of equations affect the number of possible solutions. This lesson is guided by a PowerPoint presentation. |
| Pennies and Post-its: | Students will use manipulatives (pennies and post-its) to model solving one-variable equations. |
| Inequal-tile-ies: | In this lesson, students will work with Algebra Tiles to solve inequalities. This lesson builds upon student experience with solving equalities, as well as identifying inequalities and representing them on the number line. This lesson is an introduction to solving inequalities. |
| Relating Surface Area and Volume: | Students will recognize that while the surface area may change, the volume can remain the same. This lesson is enhanced through the multimedia CPALMS Perspectives Video, which introduces students to the relationship between surface area and volume. |
| Solving Linear Equations in One Variable: | This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:
- Solve linear equations in one variable with rational number coefficients.
- Collect like terms.
- Expand expressions using the distributive property.
- Categorize linear equations in one variable as having one, none, or infinitely many solutions.
It also aims to encourage discussion on some common misconceptions about algebra. |
| Writing Inequalities to Represent Situations: | Students will learn how to write inequalities through guided practice, cooperative learning, and comparing the solutions of inequalities to those of equations. |
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