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Mathematics Education
Subject: Math
Grade : 7th
Time: 45 min.
Number of Students: 25
Population: Breckenridge Middle School
Content Standards:
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.EE.A.1 Apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor,
and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.EE.A.2 Understand that rewriting an expression in different forms in a
problem context can shed light on the problem and how the quantities in it are related. For example, a +
0.05a = 1.05a means that increase by 5% is the same as multiply by 1.05.
Practice Standards:
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. (Students will
make sense of the problems and persevere through them by using concrete objects, pictures, and examples
to help aid them in conceptualizing to solve their problems.)
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively. (Students will makes sense of
quantities and their relationships in problem situations.)
Topic: Adding Algebraic Expressions (Chapter 7 Section 3)
Key Vocabulary:
- Coefficients
- Constants
- Simplify
- Algebraic Expression
Objective(s):

Apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions
with rational coefficients.
Understand that rewriting an expression in different forms in a problem context can shed light on
the problem and how the quantities in it are related.

Name: Mikel Williams

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Mathematics Education
Materials:
- Chromebooks (for the students)
- Math book / Workbook
- Pencil or Writing Utensil
- Journal or Paper
- Projector
- Smartboard
- Desktop Computer (for the teacher)
Teacher Preparation:
- Make sure I know and easily comprehend the definitions.
- Have my CTs computer ready and available to use for the necessary online resources.
- Have a nice opener to make my students minds clear, ready and excited to learn mathematics.
Assessment of prior knowledge:
I will assess my students prior knowledge through the warm-up activity as a way to see what the
students already know and understand about the lesson we will go over today.
Assessment of objectives on content knowledge:
The students will show what they have learned by answering practice problems from their
workbook and whether or not they were unable to understand the concept to achieve the correct
answer.
Assessment of objectives on practice standards:
The students assessment of objectives will be completing the Chapter 7 Section 3 homework on
Digits.

Name: Mikel Williams

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Mathematics Education
Introduction:
The lesson begins as soon as the students walk through the door and begin their journals. The
students will have about five to eight minutes to work on their journals independently before we
do the journal together.
After the journal and scaffolding some of the content that the students did not understand we will
begin the lesson.
Body:
First, well go over how to write an algebraic expression involving addition to shed light on a realworld issue.
Second, well identify and define the terminology needed that the students need to know in-orderto properly converse with others about the content that is being taught.
Third, well use properties of operations that we already learned in-order-to add linear expressions
with rational coefficients.
Fourth, well learn how to add expressions in a problem context to shed light on the problem.
Closure:
Last, I will close the lesson and allow the students the rest of the class time to work on their
homework individually or in pairs as I go around and help the students.

General Differentiation Plan

Students will always be called upon to answer questions and show the work they are learning to do
whether they willingly volunteered or not, but some of the ways that Professor Wolfgang and myself
make it more comfortable are the following:
o Allowing the students to vote with their feet; meaning the instructors will put a problem on the
board and the students will have to walk to the designated area in the room if they believe their
answer is correct.
o Students will be able to swipe correct answers into the correct answers bank when available on the
Smartboard as they finish their problems from their practice book.
o Sometimes students are just scared to go up to the board and do a problem by their self, so
Professor Wolfgang and myself allow the students to take a partner with them if need be as a way
to feel more comfortable and ask for help from their friend if they are struggling.
o There is an activity on socrative.com that is called, Space Race. This activity randomly puts the
students into groups on their Chromebook and has them compete against the other groups in math
problems to see which team will win, while keeping the teams and team members anonymous.

Name: Mikel Williams

Lesson Plan Organizer

Mathematics Education

Name: Mikel Williams