Day 107: Equivalent Expressions Quiz & Introducing Equations

6th Grade Math Standards: 6.EE.7 Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations of the form x + p = q and px = q for cases in which p, x, and q are all rational nonnegative numbers.

The Learning Objective: Combine like terms to find equivalent expressions. Use the distributive property to find equivalent expressions. Solve an addition equation using the inverse operation to both sides of the equation.

Agenda:

1. Pass back last week's weekly quiz and hand out this week's weekly quiz
2. Take the quiz
3. Work on the weekly quiz
4. Basketball team - I had students pick teams and then said that one player got injured. If a player is taken off one team, what should the other team do to be fair? 
5. Addition equation notes
6. Addition equation practice and homework

The Assessment: The quiz and problems #20 and 21 out of the textbook as well as the homework problems.

Homework: Page 529 out of the Glencoe book problems #1-19 and 22 as well as the weekly quiz being due tomorrow

My Glass Half-Full Take: I think that thanks to having more time and longer classes these students understand the distributive property and combining like terms much better than the classes the past two years have.

One Thing to Do Differently: I need to give much more examples of the formatting for adding equations in the notes. Students should do about 8 until they have the process down. I also liked showing the last class the problem 5n + 8 = n - 12 to show them why the process is so important (even though that problem was completely over their heads).