SIOP Lesson Plan Template 2

STANDARDS: Standard - CC.2.1.8.E.1: Distinguish between rational and irrational numbers

using their properties.

THEME: Mathematics
LESSON TOPIC: Irrational and Rational Numbers
OBJECTIVES:
Language:
Students will be able to write the diffrences between rational and irrational numbers.

Content:
Students will be able to identify and distinguish rational and irrational numbers.

LEARNING STRATEGIES:
KEY VOCABULARY:
1.Irrational numbers
2.Rational numbers
3.Real numbers
4.Unreal numbers

MATERIALS: Smartboard Lesson, Chain Links

MOTIVATION:
(Building background)
The teacher will tap into the student prior knowledge of whole numbers, and fractions. The
teacher will do this by asking the student to draw a pie chart and divide the chart into groups and
label the graph. The teacher will show a video of a young girl making an irrational decision to
spark discussion on irrational and rational numbers. The teacher will have the student come up to
the board and show prior knowledge of fractions using a pie chart.

PRESENTATION:
(Language and content objectives, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, feedback)
The teachers will be using chain links and number lines, and T-charts to state the differences
between rational and irrational numbers. The teacher will define the differences and provide
examples of each number. The student will create their own chain link that includes the defintion
and different examples. After the student will come up to the board and complete a chart that
asks student to use higher order thinking and justify their answer.There is a slide to explain the
vocabulary words of real and unreal numbers.

PRACTICE AND APPLICATION:

(Meaningful activities, interaction, strategies, practice and application, feedback)
The teacher will provide meaningful activities by having the student complete a T-chart to sort the
differences on the numbers. Next the student will complete the smart board page of circling
whether or not the example is rational and irrational.

REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT:

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SIOP Lesson Plan Template 2

(Review objectives and vocabulary, assess learning)
The teachers will provide ongoing formative assessments to check for understanding. An example
of this would be the T-chart, chain links, and examples page.

EXTENSION:
Teacher will have the student moving by solving irrational and rational number problems on white
board and solving them against a timer. The timer will keep the student active and out of her
seat.
(Reproduction of this material is restricted to use with Echevarria, Vogt, and Short, 2008. Making Content
Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model.)

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