Stacey Armstrong, Reflection 7

Lesson Plan 1

Target Audience: 7th Grade math students

Overall Goal: Introduce students to solving linear equations by adding and subtracting

Learning Objectives: Understand inverse operations, learn how to write an solve an equation, understand what it means to combine like terms

Assessment: We will begin the class by playing the “What number am I” game. This starts to get students thinking about solving equations. The students will take notes and do examples. Students will be given a worksheet and time in class to work on this worksheet. What they do not complete will be assigned as homework due the next day.

Indiana Content Standards:

• 7.3.1 Use variables and appropriate operations to write an expression, a formula, an equation, or an inequality that represents a verbal description.

• 7.2.1 Solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems that use integers, fractions, decimals, and combinations of the four operations.

• 7.3.4 Use correct algebraic terminology, such as variable, equation, term, coefficient, inequality, expression, and constant.

• 7.7.10 Make precise calculations and check the validity of the results in the context of the problem.



Lesson Plan 2

Target Audience: 7th grade students

Overall Goal: Learn how to subtract integers

Learning Objectives: Learn the difference between subtracting positive and negative numbers. Learn how to subtract negative numbers.

Assessment: Students will start out doing problems with integer tiles to understand what taking away numbers means and adding negative numbers. Students will then move into subtracting negative numbers using the integer tiles. After students do this we will move into note taking, then will be given a worksheet to been done for class the next day.

Indiana Content Standard:

•7.2.1 Solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems that use integers, fractions, decimals, and combinations of the four operations.

• 7.3.1 Use variables and appropriate operations to write an expression, a formula, an equation, or an inequality that represents a verbal description.


Lesson Plan 3

Target Audience: 7th Grade Students

Overall Goal: Teach students how to classify polygons.

Learning Objectives: Understand what a polygon is, learn different types of polygons

Assessment: Students will use a pre-made Sketchpad lab to compare squares, rectangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, and rhombi. Students will then take notes in class creating a chart with the special quadrilaterals. After notes they will be given a homework assignment to be turned in the next day.

Indiana Content Standards:

• 7.7.2 Make and justify mathematical conjectures based on a general description of a mathematical question or problem.