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Help learners understand the benefits of rearranging a formula. Scholars practice rearranging formulas for specific variables. They also analyze formulas to understand one variable's effect on the other.
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CCSS:
Adaptable
Concepts
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Instructional Ideas
- Use whiteboards to allow learners to make mistakes and show the class how to correct them
- Introduce the lesson using an application problem that is asking for a distance traveled given a speed and time;, and highlight the efficiency of solving the speed formula for distance
Classroom Considerations
- Builds directly from the previous lessons in the series
- The lesson is the 12th in a 20-part series
Pros
- Uses good questioning techniques to help learners understand the variable relationships within a formula
Cons
- Practice problems are missing some concepts addressed in the example problems