Lesson

Plan – Matrices Day 1

Dimensions, Scalars, Adding, & Subtraction

Utah State Core N.VM.6 – Use matrices to represent and manipulate data, e.g., to
Standard and Objective represent payoffs or incidence relationships in a network.
N.VM.7 – Multiply matrices by scalars to produce new matrices,
e.g., as when all of the pay-offs in a game are doubled.
N.VM.8 – Add, subtract, and multiply matrices of appropriate
dimensions.

Students will know what matrices are and how to use them to
represent data.
Essential Question How can you represent relationships and solve problems?
How do activities, Students already know how to add, subtract, and multiply.
materials, etc. connect
to student’s prior
knowledge?
Assessments (formative Pre- Assessment – Students will take a pre-assessment to see
and/or summative) what they know about matrices. This will be my bell ringer.

i-Clickers – Students will be asked questions within my lesson
where they can answer so I can see if they are understanding the
information.
Learning Activities: Bell Ringer (10 min)- Students will be given a short pre-
(include detailed assessment to find out what they know about matrices.
description and time
frame for each activity) Notes with iClickers (30 min) – Matrices: They will learn
dimensions, how to represent data, multiplying by scalars,
adding, and subtracting.

Activity (10 min) – Scalar Activity - Decipher the message

Homework Assignments (20 min) – They will work on homework.
They are allowed to work in groups or by themselves as long as
they are working.

Accommodations made Group work - They will work in groups for their homework to help
for struggling and each other out.
accelerated learners
(grouping patterns, Prepared Notes - They will have notes that are already prepared
content literacy to help them follow along and they can add to them to help their
strategies, etc.) understanding.
 Differentiation (2 ways) Color coding and element positioning when adding and
subtracting elements of the matrices.
Resources Mrs. Dangerfield’s flipcharts & notes,
https://algebra2coach.com/adding-and-subtracting-matrices/,
How has the prior day’s They have used substitution and elimination to solve systems of
assessment shaped your equations and we will be working towards solving systems of
instruction? equations again using matrices.