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Connecting Fractions and Rational Expressions Lesson PlanConnecting Fractions and Rational Expressions Lesson Plan
Publisher
West Contra Costa Unified School District
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Grade
8th - 10th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
Lesson Plan

Connecting Fractions and Rational Expressions

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Teach class members to work with rational expressions using their knowledge of fractions. The lesson plan starts with a warm-up of rational expressions at four different levels of complexity. The different levels continue throughout the examples of operations with rational expressions. Finally, learners complete an exit ticket in a collaborative pair.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

rational expressions, simplify rational expressions, addition rational expressions, subtraction rational expressions

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the different levels of the problems to differentiate the instruction for your class

Classroom Considerations

  • The resource assumes the class knows how to factor polynomials
  • The collaborative practices include the sage/scribe and the pass-the-pen techniques

Pros

  • The resource provides a progression of rational expressions within the examples from simple to complex
  • The opening has the class create a table of procedures used with fractions to use with rational expressions

Cons

  • Resource includes answers to a worksheet that is not included; you need to create it

Common Core

HSA-APR.D.7 MP6 MP7

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