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In your notebooks, translate the following

phrases into mathematical expressions:

1. Some number increased by 28

2. Product of a number 12 and e

Warm Up 3.
4.
Quotient of a number j and 32
A number w less than 18
5. 4 less than the product of some number and 6
6. Reanna separated p of her books into 3 equal
stacks
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KV1 This Warm Up builds on the content we covered during last Friday's lesson. All of these expressions should be
review. The students will have 3 minutes to work on their own, and I am giving myself another 3 minutes to go
over the solutions with them.
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Common Mathematical Operation Wording

Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division

Sum Difference Product Quotient

Increased Decreased Times Split/

Separated

More Than Less Than Twice Per

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KV2 The purpose of this slide is to review the terminology we covered last Friday and build off of the concepts we
covered during the Warm Up. This is meant to prepare students for the more challenging expression translation
examples we cover in this lesson. I am only giving this 2 minutes.
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Translating Scenarios Into

Mathematical Expressions

1. Nikhai ate lunch at Chipotle. He had a

sofritas salad that had t grams of
protein, c grams of carbohydrates, and
16 grams of sugar.

2. He also had an apple juice at lunch.

That apple juice had 20 fewer grams of
protein than the salad, two times as
many carbohydrates as the salad, and
3 times as much sugar as the salad.
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KV3 The plan here is to go over two of these together and then have the students attempt the other two on their
own. I am allotting 10 minutes for this portion.
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Group Activity Objectives and Instructions

• Create 4 of your own scenarios that can be translated into
mathematical expressions.
• You cannot use the words add, subtract, multiply, or divide.
• At least 2 of the scenarios you create must result in an
expression that has 3 or more terms.
• After finishing your story, you must write out the
mathematical expressions for each of your scenarios.
• Your scenarios and corresponding mathematical expressions
must be written in Google Docs and submitted on Google
Classroom.
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KV5 My plan is to take no more than 3 minutes to go over these directions.

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• Select someone at your table to be the Spokesperson, the Data Analyst, the Creative Director, and the
Technical Writer.
• Everyone, regardless of role must contribute to the development of the scenarios.
• If you don’t have 4 people in your group, someone can have more than one role.

Creative Director: Creates the

group’s Google Doc, writes the story
Data Analyst: Writes out
down in group’s Google Doc, and the math expressions in Spokesperson: Reads the
ensures the Google Doc is properly the group’s Google Doc. groups’ story to the class.
formatted with every group
member’s name and role on top.

Technical Writer: Writes the math

expressions from the group’s
story on the board.
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KV6 My plan is to give myself 2 minutes to go over these role descriptions.

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Assignment Rubric
Assignment Objective
Write a 5 to 6 sentence
short story that includes at
least 4 scenarios that can be
translated into 4 different
mathematical expressions.
Does not meet
expectations
(0-69%)
Story does not contain the
minimum required number
of sentences and/or unique
mathematical expressions
with 3 or more terms. Story
does contain the relevant
mathematical language used
to express addition,
subtraction, multiplication
or division.
Approaches
Expectations
(70-89%)
Story contains at least 5
sentences, 4 scenarios that
can be expressed
mathematically and at least 2
of the mathematical
expressions have 3 or more
terms. Majority of the
mathematical expressions are
written correctly.
Meets Expectations
(90-100%)
Story contains 5 to 6 scenarios
that can be expressed
mathematically, and at least 3
of the mathematical
expressions contain 3 or more
terms. Each mathematical
expression is written correctly.
The story is a clearly written
narrative rather than a
collection of unrelated
statements.
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KV7 I thought adding this rubric might help add some accountability to the students and prompt them to give a
serious effort here.
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KV8 My plan is to give them 12 minutes to work, then allocate 15 minutes for the groups to present their stories. This
should leave about 3 minutes for them to pack up and ready themselves to leave.
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KV9 If any portion of the lesson runs long, I can cut the group read out and have them present their short stories
tomorrow.
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Reflection
• Go to: http://bit.ly/mathexpressionsurvey
• Complete the survey. Please answer all questions as
completely and honestly as possible.
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KV5 My plan is to take no more than 3 minutes to go over these directions.

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