No Series: Factor, Expand & Combine Like Terms (Uncut)

Math.Practice.MP4

Common core State Standards

  • Math:  Math
  • Practice:  Mathematical Practice Standards
  • MP4:  Model with mathematics.

    Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.

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Math.Practice.MP6

Common core State Standards

  • Math:  Math
  • Practice:  Mathematical Practice Standards
  • MP6:  Attend to precision.

    Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning. They state the meaning of the symbols they choose, including using the equal sign consistently and appropriately. They are careful about specifying units of measure, and labeling axes to clarify the correspondence with quantities in a problem. They calculate accurately and efficiently, express numerical answers with a degree of precision appropriate for the problem context. In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.

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Math.7.EE.A.1

Common core State Standards

  • Math:  Math
  • 7:  Grade 7
  • EE:  Expressions & Equations
  • A:  Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions
  • 1: 
    Apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients.

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Factor, Expand & Combine Like Terms (Uncut)

Lesson Objective: This is 45 minutes of authentic teaching, unedited, and without teacher narration.
Grade 7 / Math / Expressions
45 MIN
Math.Practice.MP4 | Math.Practice.MP6 | Math.7.EE.A.1

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  1. What You'll See: Student collaboration Use of manipulatives Real-world math Math talk Formative assessment?

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  • Private message to Christine Garner

This class started by reading the objective of the lesson. They were very interested in the activity because the teacher had the students sort by category but they had to figure out/determine what the category was. Once they figured out the category they had cards to sort or add to the board, they were also quizzed about the proper terminology like constants, terms, expressions and rational coefficients. During the second part of the activity, the teacher gave them an envelope with a group of terms that they were expected to categorize as like terms. It was interesting to watch the students problem solve about which terms were alike. The final activity was to to simplify the expressions , which they did fairly well. I think that maybe an anchor chart with the rules for adding and subtracting exponents would have been helpful. Also, I felt the teacher could have rotated around the groups to clear up misconceptions the students were having. Overall I feel this was an excellent class that students were engaged in and learned from each other and their teacher.

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Sudbrook Magnet Middle School
4300 Bedford Rd
Baltimore MD 21208
Population: 1040

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Michelle Goldberg