Lesson: Translate Word Phrases Into Expressions/Equations

Element/Time

Teacher

Do Now

(8:30 – 8:40)/(10:00 –10:10) 

·         Teacher walks around to greet students and check in with students about their do now and homework

HW Check

·         Put up answers – check in with bubble students on work – help think through hw problems.

Mental Math

(8:40 – 8:50) /(10:10 – 10:20)

·         Teacher reads and reveals a series of 6 problems – helping students to think of strategies to help students solve the problems

·         Teacher pulls sticks (cold call) to have students answer the questions

Mini Lesson

(8:50 – 9:25)/(10:20 – 10:55)

Opening:

·         Yesterday we learned about key vocabulary for working with expressions and equations.

·         Who can tell me the difference between an expression and an equation?

Equations have equal signs, expressions do not.

·         What are some of the vocabulary terms we learned yesterday? What do they mean?

Variable, coefficient, term,  

·         Today we will be using our knowledge of the vocabulary to translate words into mathematical sentences and symbols.

Intro:

·         We know that math is just a symbolic way to represent real situations and words.  Today we are going to be looking at words and translating them.

·         This is sort of like translating something from one language to another.  At times it can be tricky but there are some key words to know that mean certain things

·         Complete organizer.

·         Model going through a couple of phrases of words to symbols.

Guided:

·         Ask students to think about the words they see – which ones help you to know about which operation? 

·         Which help you to know about whether it is an expression or an equation 

Independent:

·         Students will work independently to translate phrases to symbols.

·         Teacher will ask students to think aloud what they are doing as they solve problems.

Closing:

·         What did we learn?

·         Why is important?

·         What are some common mistakes?

·         What does successful work look like/sound like?

Skills Time

(9:35- 9:50) /(11:05-11:25)

Whole class review of equivalency - FDP