Equation Vocab
Lesson Outcomes: Students understand vocabulary for equations
Translating Verbal Expressions into Algebraic Expressions
- Students will be able to translate verbal phrases into algebraic expressions and algebraic expressions into verbal phrases.
- Students will be able to write, read, and evaluate algebraic expressions in which letters stand for numbers.
Discovering the Deviations
- This lesson will follow a review day of statistics and box and whisker plots and will lead into the discovery of z-score which will be in the following lesson.
Relating Graphs to Events
- This lesson would introduce time vs. distance graphs and how they can help describe real life events. Some students will conceptually understand this with little effort or explanation, where others will struggle visualizing it. This topic is essentially introducing slope in its simplest form, which will be covered heavily in the following tow lessons.
Using Speed of Hot Rods to Understand Slope
- This lesson should be fun because they get to race cars, make predictions conceptually calculate slope without the use of a formal formula. The formula will soon be derived, hopefully as a student discovery, but students will have something concrete with which to associate the formula.
Using Slippery Slope to Write an Equation of a Line
- This lesson will review slope, discover what the y-intercept means, and put the two together to create an equation of a line in slope intercept form.
Linear Regression Capstone Project
- The students will take everything that they have learned about linear regression to create a bungee jumping scenario for a Barbie.
Writing/Finding the equation of the line of best fit
- The students should be able to construct the line of best fit given a graph, but not find the equation of a line. They should also be able to identify a positive, negative, or no correlation. Students should also know how to find the equation of a line given two points or the graph of a line.
Introduction to Linear Regression
- This lesson is an introduction to linear regressions. The students will be shown different graphs to figure out what type of regression, if any, they are going to be working with. They will then be taught how to find the line of best fit, given a set of points or a scatter plot.
Solving Two Step Equations
The students should be able to solve one step equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They should also be able to combing like terms and simplify expressions. This lesson would come after one step equations, and before solving equations with variables on both sides of the equal sign.