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Acquisition Lesson Planning Form
Lesson 1-1
Variables and Expressions
Essential Question:
How do you write variable expressions for word phrases?
Activating Strategies:
Sort: Given a set of expressions, students will sort the expressions into numerical vs. variable.
KWL: Do you know what (y + 9 means), (a variable expression looks like), (a numerical
expression looks like), (100 X 6 means).
Round Table: Students each write one thing that would be in the ideal school. Then pass their
paper to the right so that each student can add to the paper.
Acceleration/Previewing:
Variable, Variable Expression
Graphic Organizer- Frayer or Word Map, Flip Foldable
Teaching Strategies:
1. I Do-We Do-You Do: I write an expression, we write an expression as a class, students
complete their own using problems 7-12 from practice 1-1 in workbook on p. 235.
a. Teacher models 7, Class does 8, Student does 9. Repeat for 10-12.
2. Flip Book: Use data recorded by the students to demonstrate how to write expressions
using each level of the flip book.
Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:
1. Numbered Heads: Students pair off and number themselves 1 or 2. “1” complete odd
and “2” complete even. Partner praises or tutors their partner. Students use 1-1 page 21
in the enrichment book.
2. Inside Outside Circle: Students make a concentric circle. Students rotate to face new
partners and then answer questions from p. 6 #7-16 in teacher text.
Extended Thinking:
Working with partners: Ask students to determine if the variable expression is correct for the
word phrase. If it is incorrect, correct it.
Summarizing Strategies:
1. Absent Student: Write a letter to an absent student answering the LEQ.
2. Show Me: Present a word phrase to the students. Students write the expression telling
what each part of the word phrase means.
LEQ Answer:
To write expressions for a word phrase translate the phrase using variables, numbers and
operation symbols that express a mathematical relationship.
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