Heather Neddo 20 Minute Lesson Topic: Solving Equations Grade Level: 9th Grade Content Standards: Mathematical Practices

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

EDU 580 12/5/11

Performance Indicators and Key Ideas: Reasoning with Equations and Inequalities (A-REI) Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning and explain the reasoning. 1. Explain each step in solving a simple equation as following from the equality of numbers asserted at the previous step, starting from the assumption that the original equation has a solution. Construct a viable argument to justify a solution method. Solve equations and inequalities in one variable. 3. Solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable, including equations with coefficients represented by letters. ISTE NETS Standards: 1. Creativity and Innovation Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. 2. Communication and Collaboration Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. Lesson Objective: 1. Students will be able to explain the steps involved in solving equations. The steps that they will be able to explain are: 1.) Combine like terms, 2.) Get the variable by itself, 3.) Use the inverse of the operation to get the variable alone, 4.) What we do to one side of the equation we must do to the other. (blooms comprehension)

2. Students will be able to simplify and solve basic linear equations for the unknown variable using a virtual manipulative. (Blooms application)

Introduce the Learning Activity: The teacher will have students go to Edmodo and answer the question about problem solving in activity one. (Think of a time in your life when a problem arose, how were you able to solve this problem. Once students have answered the question the teacher will ask a few of them to share their responses. (auditory learning) The teacher will then describe that there are several ways in which problems can be solved and introduce the objectives. Provide Information: The teacher will explain and show the four steps involved for solving equations. The four steps are 1.) Combine like terms, 2.) Get the Variable by itself, 3.) Use the inverse of the operation to get the variable alone, 4.) What we do to one side of the equation we must do to the other. The teacher will have the students repeat the steps back. (Checking for understanding) The teacher will go over these examples while the students write them down: 1.) 3x+10= 6x+1, 2.)4x-7=21-3x. (auditory/visual learning). Provide Practice: The students will then go to activity 2 on Edmodo, which will take them to this website: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_2.html. Once the students are here they will scroll down to Algebra (Grades 9-12) and practice solving equations. (kinesthetic/visual learning) The teacher will go around the room to see if students need help working through problems. (checking for understanding) Once students seem to have a good grasp on solving equations they will then create their own equation and have the person next to them try to solve it. (cooperative learning) Students will be given about 8-10 minutes to solve equations. Provide Knowledge of Results: The teacher will provide immediate verbal feedback on students knowledge for any questions that are asked. As the students are practicing solving equations the teacher will be walking around the room to check and see if students need help, or are having difficulty with questions, and answer any questions they may have. (checking for understanding) While walking around the room the teacher will provide positive feedback to students completing the work and asking questions if they do not understand the work. Written feedback will be provided by the exit slip. Students will complete the exit slip and the teacher will review their work and figure out what will need to be discussed in the following lesson. Review the Activity:

The students will complete an exit slip at the end of class. For the exit slip students will be asked to write down the four steps involved in solving an equation, along with completing the given equation 6x+8=12+4x. (formative assessment) Method of Assessment: The students will be given a worksheet for homework. The worksheet will assess the students ability to solve equations, by following the four steps. On the following day the homework will be gone over in-depth to check for completion and comprehension. The teacher will be assessing the students on their knowledge of the four steps involved with the first checking for understanding. The second checking for understanding the teacher will be assessing students on their capability of solving problems.