Solving Equations (Day 7)
A warm up reviews real class mistakes from the last formative assessment with targeted practice. Students then work independently on a solving-equations worksheet paired with silent solution videos under 30 seconds each, and early finishers play the When Math Happens Balance Scale game.
50 minutes
Free
Routines:
Chromebooks, Error Analysis, Game
Lesson Prep
Lesson Details
Duration: 50 minutes
Learning Goal: Develop and practice procedural fluency for solving equations.
Prework
Make sure you have Chromebooks or some other class set of technology
Answer Keys
Classwork
Finished Early?
Standards
Common Core
8.EE.C.7 – Solve linear equations in one variable.
8.EE.C.7.B – Solve linear equations with rational number coefficients, including equations whose solutions require expanding expressions using the distributive property and collecting like terms.
TEKS
A.5(A) – solve linear equations in one variable, including those for which the application of the distributive property is necessary and for which variables are included on both sides