EXPLANATORY NOTE!
As students were taking the Language Arts MCAS on Tuesday and Wednesday and as we had an altered schedule today due to parent-conferences in the morning, the home nugget that was assigned on Tuesday evening (home nugget #15) is due on Friday March 30.
The lesson is comprised of four different practice sheets with the following titles:
7-2 Practice Solving Two-Step Equations
7-2 Study Guide Solving Two-Step Equations
7-5 Practice Solving Equations with Variables on Each Side
7-5 Study Guide Solving Equations with Variables on Each Side
Students and Parents should be assured that this lesson is adequate to have spanned three night's worth of work.
Finally a reminder of the FCAs for the lesson:
4 points: 4 random problems will be checked for accuracy
Students reflected today on the four principles of solving equations that we created as a class:
1. Isolate the variable
2. Use opposite operations
3. Respect the mirror
4. Balance the equation
We also marvelled at how many prerequisite skills solving equations demands of us including knowing:
a. order of operations
b. integer operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing positive and negative numbers)
c. exponents
d. symbolic interpretation (what does 8x mean mathematically?)
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