Despite the appearance of dealing with 'new' math content today, what is really happening is that we continue to be guided by basic principals of solving equations with the addition of one more rule.
They are for your reference:
1. Maintaining Balance
2. Isolating the Variable
3. Undoing Operations
4. Collecting Like Terms
Students are also very quickly catching on to the fact that math is intriguing in the sense that you learn a core skill and then are asked to deal with lots of variation on that skill. This forces you to think critically about problem-solving. For instance, although today's topic was solving equations with the variable on both sides, we also explored the use of the distributive property in our work, the existence of equations with no solutions and the phenomenon of identity equations where all real numbers make an equation true.
Home Nugget # 20
Assigned on Wednesday October 7, 2009
Due on Thursday October 8, 2009
In Algebra I book,
Page 101 #15 - 22 and 27 - 29
page 102 #42 - 44 and 46, 47
FCAs
2 points: all problems completed
2 points: evidence/work shown for all problems
