Unit 1: Solving Linear Equations
Please note the most recent date will always be first, and I may include tentative plans for future dates. Pay close attention to the date and scroll down for previous days!
August 22 - September 10
August 22 - September 10
Monday, September 10, 2018 (Odd - 1l)
- Learning Goals:
- To demonstrate proficiency in solving equations
- Warm-up
- Get a privacy folder
- Use the key online to check your practice summative (key is here!)
- Record your level of understanding (using the 4,3,2,1 scale)
- Questions?
- Classwork:
- Summative
- ELO
- Finish test
- Work on homework
- Complete pages 23-24 in your journal
- What do the equation, the points, and the graph have in common?
- Homework:
- Fair game review - pages 21-22 in journal
- Important Dates:
Friday, September 7, 2018 (Even - 1k)
- Learning Goals:
- To review all skills to prepare for our first summative
- Warm-up
- Use the key to check your homework
- Record your level of understanding (using the 4,3,2,1 scale)
- Questions on homework?
- Classwork:
- Practice summative - key is here!
- Homework:
- Complete practice summative
- How do you prepare for a summative?
- Important Dates:
- Summative - next Monday, 9/10
Thursday, September 6, 2018 (Odd - 1j)
- Learning Goals:
- To rewrite equations involving more than one variable
- Warm-up
- Record your level of understanding for absolute value functions on Wednesday and rewriting equations on Thursday (using the 4,3,2,1 scale)
- Quetsions on homework?
- Classwork:
- Return and discuss formatives
- examples 1 and 2 on page 28
- Writing and rearranging formulas for area, perimeter, surface area, volume
- Homework:
- Solving for variables worksheet
- Important Dates:
- Summative - next Monday, 9/10
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 (Even - 1i)
- Learning Goals:
- To rewrite equations involving more than one variable
- Warm-up
- Get a hard-back book to use in class today
- If you didn't check your homework online, use the key I will project to check your work
- We will go over problems 6 and 7
- Record your level of understanding using the 4,3,2,1 scale
- Classwork:
- Return formatives --> we will discuss them tomorrow
- Watch this video using your own computers and your headphones
- When Sal says we are done, are we? Really? (I hope your answer is no! What did he forget?)
- Work through examples 1 and 2 on page 28 and example 3 on page 29
- Homework:
- Online 1.4 or page 30, problems 5-10 (we will do the checks in class on Thursday)
- Important Dates:
- Summative - next Monday, 9/10
Tuesday, September 5, 2018 (Odd - 1h)
- Learning Goals:
- To demonstrate ability to solve simple and multi-step equations
- Warm-up
- Get your journal and a privacy folder (consider having one person at your team get these!)
- Check your practice formative using the key linked here
- Record your level of understanding using the 4,3,2,1 scale
- Complete the warmup on the front board
- Classwork:
- Formative
- Solving absolute value equations (related lesson is on page 24 in book)
- Practice in journal
- What does it look like with a substitute teacher?
- Homework:
- Absolute value equations - online assignment 1.3 OR pages 24-25, problems 1-7
- Bring headphones for class tomorrow
- Important Dates:
- Summative - next Monday, 9/10
Thursday, August 30, 2018 (Odd - 1g)
- Learning Goals:
- To solve multi-step equations
- Warm-up
- Check your homework using the key on your clipboard
- Record your level of understanding using the 4,3,2,1 scale
- Logon to Clever and set your computer to the side
- Classwork:
- Go over homework questions
- Showing work and check
- Clearing fractions
- Boat problem
- Download book and readium
- Assembly expectations
- High 5 partners
- Multi-step equations practice activity
- Go over homework questions
- Homework:
- Practice formative - answer key is here!
- Important Dates:
- Assembly tomorrow
- Formative - next Tuesday
Tuesday and Wednesday, August 28 and 29, 2018 (Odd - 1e and Even - 1f)
- Learning Goals:
- To show what we know on MAPshow what we know on MAPs
- Classwork:
- Logon to your computer and open the NWEA browser
- Homework:
- Multi-step equation practice (due Thursday) (due Thursday)
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - Tuesday and Wednesday, August 28 and 29
Monday, August 27, 2018 (Even - 1d)
- Learning Goals:
- To solve multi-step equations
- Warm-Up:
- Use the answer key on the clipboard at your table to check your homework
- Did you show your work and a formal check in the way you learned last year?
- Classwork:
- Homework routine
- Showing work, using calculators, and using Synergy to look for missing assignments
- Multi-step equations
- Homework routine
- Homework:
- 1.3: Multi-step equation practice
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - Tuesday and Wednesday, August 28 and 29
- Formative - Tuesday, September 4 (solving one, two, and multi step equations)
Friday, August 24, 2018 (Odd - 1c)
- Learning Goals:
- To get to know each other and our math classroom
- To communicate effectively and respectfully about our math learning
- To solve two step equations
- Warm-Up:
- Use the answer key on the clipboard at your table to check your homework
- Did you show your work and a formal check in the way you learned last year?
- Classwork:
- Homework routine
- Showing work, using calculators, and using Synergy to look for missing assignments
- Plan for day - front board and back board
- Website
- Organizational skills (Mustang 101)
- Odd One Out
- Math talk
- Sentence starters
- Odds and ends (phones, music, fidgets, snacks, gum)
- Two-step equations
- Homework routine
- Homework:
- Two step equation practice
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - Tuesday and Wednesday, August 28 and 29
Friday, August 24, 2018 (Odd - 1c) ELO
- Learning Goals:
- To solve two step equations
- Warm-Up:
- Get out your "odd one out" sheet and a lined piece of paper
- Tape your "sentence starters" in the front of your composition notebook
- Classwork:
- Homework score accuracy
- Odd One Out reflection
- Choose two of the reflection sentences from the bottom of the page and complete them on the back of your paper. Be prepared to share.
- Sentence starters
- Two-step equations
- One problem with feedback
- Homework:
- Two step equations practice
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - Tuesday and Wednesday, August 28 and 29
Thursday, August 23, 2018 (Even - 1b)
- Learning Goals:
- To get to know each other and our math classroom
- To represent linear relationships
- To solve simple equations
- Classwork:
- How to use homework clipboard and turn in math surveys
- Mustang Mastery
- Linear relationships - how do we represent them?
- Solving one step equations
- Homework:
- Solving simple equations practice - handout
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - Tuesday and Wednesday, August 28 and 29
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 (Odd - 1a)
- Learning Goals:
- To get to know each other and our math classroom
- To set the stage for a year of collaboration and learning
- Warm-Up:
- Seating chart - sit where your name is on the desk, please
- Classwork:
- Names on journals, complete page 1, storage
- Introductions
- Algebra - what to expect
- Supplies
- Desmos
- Linear functions card sort
- What helped you be successful?
- What was easy? What was hard?
- Homework:
- Survey
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - Tuesday and Wednesday, August 28 and 29