Learning Experience Plan

Subject: Algebra

Grade level: 9

Unit: Solving Equations and Inequalities

25 minutes

Length of LEP: 1 day/1 period/

Topic: Solving for Equations using Addition/Subtraction and Multiplication/Division

Content Standards: Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning
and explain the reasoning. 1. Explain each step in solving a simple equation as
following from the equality of numbers asserted at the previous step, starting from
the assumption that the original equation has a solution. Construct a viable
argument to justify a solution method. 2. Solve simple rational and radical equations
in one variable, and give examples showing how extraneous solutions may arise.
Literacy Standards:
Learning Experience Outcomes
(knowledge/skills)

Students will use addition, subtraction,

multiplication, and division in order to
solve one variable equations.

Differentiation
Approaching

Learning Experience Assessments

Do Now: Entry Ticket: solve -9g 45 = -81
using prior knowledge
BINGO with Equations Game
Homework: Solving Equations Worksheet
Exit Ticket: State whether the given answer
to the problem is correct or not

(What will you do to meet the needs of students at these different levels?)

On-level

Beyond

Curriculum Integration (Does this lesson correlate with any other content area? Describe.)
Through going over the vocabulary of the unit brings English Language Arts into the
lesson. This teaches students how to use the meaning of words to help them solve
equations. English is also incorporated into the exit ticket. Students are asked to put
their answer into words as to why or why not the given problem is correct. This allows
them to use their argumentative skills and skills of putting math into words, which
they obtained from English class.
Materials

Procedures/Strategies

Pencil/Pen

Day 3

Classwork
Worksheet
Day 3

Sponge Activity

Do Now:
Entry

Students will be given an entry ticket with one equation on it (-9g 45 =

-81), and they must use the past two lessons to try to solve for the
variable. We will go over this as a class to introduce equations that

Ticket

involve more than one operation.

BINGO with
Equations
Game
Boars

Anticipatory Set

Exit Ticket

Activating Prior Knowledge

Homework:
Solving
Equations
Worksheet

The Do Now incorporates both subtraction and multiplication in one

equation, allowing students to use what they have learned from the last
two lessons to solve for the variable.

How do we solve equations using that involve addition/subtraction and

multiplication/division?

Direct Instruction (input, modeling, check for understanding)

1. Go over the do now and ask students what they think should be
done first, second, and last in order to solve for the variable.
2. Go over steps that we came up with during the Do Now for solving
equations that involved addition/subtraction and
multiplication/division:
a. Identify the variable: -9g 45 = -81.
b. Add or subtract the NUMBER from both sides of the equals
sign:
-9g 45 = -81
+45 +45
c. Multiply or divide the NUMBER ATTACHED TO THE VARIABLE
from both sides of the equals sign:
(-1/9)(-9g)= (-1/9)(-36)
d. Get the variable by itself: g = 4
3. Input: Briefly review the vocabulary of the unit from the previous
lessons, including:
Constant: a number that is on its own
Variable: the quantity that may change; the symbol
Root(s): the answer of the equation
Coefficient: the number right next to the variable
Then, as a class we will label these terms in the equation 3x +
5 = 20.
4. Do examples of equations with multiplication as a class: 7 + 3x
= 8 and 2b + 18 = 36.
5. Do examples of equations with division as a class: a/4 10 = 10
and -5 + d/2 = 10.
6. Go over how to check each equation by plugging the answer back
into the original equation. For example, 7 + 3x = 8, x = 5, so 7
+ 3x = 8, -7 + 3(5) = 8, -7 + 15 = 8, 8 = 8.
Guided Practice (how students will demonstrate their grasp of new learning)
BINGO with Equations: the teacher will give the students a series of

equations, and they must solve the equations to see if their BINGO
board has that answer on it. The equations that are pulled will be
displayed on the Smart Board. The first student to get BINGO on a
diagonal, horizontal, or vertical line and who has all the equations solved
correctly gets a free homework pass.
Independent Practice (what students will do to reinforce learning of the lesson)
For homework, students will complete a worksheet that is to be handed
in the next day before the beginning of class. The worksheet titled
Solving Equations asks students to solve for the unknown and to check
their work. Students will be assessed using the FULL/PARTIAL credit
rubric.
Closure (action/statement by teacher designed to bring lesson presentation to an appropriate
close)
The students will be given an exit slip, which contains one question on it
that asks them to explain why the answer the student gave is correct or
not. We will go over this slip as a class to review the steps and
procedure taken in order to solve equations with more than one
operation.

References:
file:///C:/Users/Amanda/Downloads/OneStepEquationsBingoGameFREE.pdf