I start with this warmup from Illustrative Mathematic’s lesson on elimination: Their materials include a nice example analysis activity as … More
Category: Algebra
Faded Practice – Substituting to Solve Systems of Linear Equations
First, an estimation warm up to make sure everyone understands what we’re trying to do. Then, a mistake analysis problem, … More
Completing the Square
Here’s what I’ve used in class this week, mostly to good effect.
Faded Practice with Equations of Lines
I took these images from the Kuta Software worksheets (actually the answer keys) and am turning them into some faded … More
Finding the Constant of Proportionality
Looks like I took the table from the lesson summary from one of these lessons and wrote an example activity … More
Solving Equations that have fractions
Here are two worked-out strategies, in the spirit of Compare & Discuss — a great site for worked example activities. … More