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Use Verbs in the Active and Passive Voice
This Language lesson focuses on having students correct the use of the passive voice. Students will identify the actors and recipients of the action in a sentnece and rewrite the sentence to use the active voice. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of facts and details related to topics for review and organizing.
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Distinguish Between Rational & Irrational Numbers
This number system lesson teaches students how to distinguish between rational and irrational numbers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will distinguish between various types of numbers, including irrational numbers, integers, and whole numbers.
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Identify Types of Systems of Linear Equations
8.EE.8.B Solve systems of two linear equations in two variables algebraically, and estimate solutions by graphing the equations. Solve simple cases by inspection. For example, 3x + 2y = 5 and 3x + 2y = 6 have no solution because 3x + 2y cannot simultaneously be 5 and 6.
HSA.REI.6HSA.REI.6 Solve systems of linear equations exactly and approximately (e.g., with graphs), focusing on pairs of linear equations in two variables.
HSA.REI.10HSA.REI.10 Understand that the graph of an equation in two variables is the set of all its solutions plotted in the coordinate plane, often forming a curve (which could be a line).
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Apply the Properties of Exponents
This expressions and equations lesson teaches students how to apply the properties of exponents. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will apply the properties of exponents to create equivalent expressions. There are flashcards for this lesson to review the concept that exponents must have the same base for multiplication and division to be used.
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Simplify Expressions with Roots
8.EE.2 Use square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations of the form x2 = p and x3 = p, where p is a positive rational number. Evaluate square roots of small perfect squares and cube roots of small perfect cubes. Know that √2 is irrational.
HSN.RN.1HSN.RN.1 Explain how the definition of the meaning of rational exponents follows from extending the properties of integer exponents to those values, allowing for a notation for radicals in terms of rational exponents. For example, we define 5^(1/3) to be the cube root of 5 because we want (5^(1/3))^3 = (5^(1/3))^3 to hold, so (5^(1/3))^3 must equal 5.
HSN.RN.2HSN.RN.2 Rewrite expressions involving radicals and rational exponents using the properties of exponents.
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Evaluate Square Roots of Perfect Squares
This expressions and equations lesson teaches students how to evaluate square roots of perfect squares. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will evaluate expressions with square roots of perfect squares. Students will evaluate a variety of different expressions.
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Solve Equations with Squared Variables
This expressions and equations lesson teaches students how to solve equations with squared variables. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students find the values of squared variables in equations. Students will solve for a variety of equations, including several real-world word problems.
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Derive the Equation of a Line
This expressions and equations lesson teaches students how to derive the equation of a line. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will derive the slope of a given line. This lesson focuses on the use of the y-intercept and finding the slope to create an equation that defines a particular line. This lesson includes problems with real-world word problems.
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Determine the Number of Solutions of a Linear Equations
8.EE.7 Solve linear equations in one variable.
8.EE.7.A8.EE.7.A Give examples of linear equations in one variable with one solution, infinitely many solutions, or no solutions. Show which of these possibilities is the case by successively transforming the given equation into simpler forms, until an equivalent equation of the form x = a, a = a, or a = b results (where a and b are different numbers).
This expressions and equations lesson teaches students how to determine the number of solutions of a linear equation. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will find the solution to a linear equation. Students will determine whether the linear equation has one solution, infinite solutions, or no solution.
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Solve Multistep Equations
This expressions and equations lesson teaches students how to solve multistep equations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will solve equations that require three or more steps. Students will perform a variety of inverse operations to isolate the variable and determine the solution.
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Graph a System of Linear Equations
(Y8) Solve linear equations using algebraic and graphical techniques. Verify solutions by substitution (ACMNA194)
ACMNA237(Y10) Solve linear simultaneous equations, using algebraic and graphical techniques, including using digital technology (ACMNA237)
8.EE.8 Analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations.
8.EE.8.A8.EE.8.A Understand that solutions to a system of two linear equations in two variables correspond to points of intersection of their graphs, because points of intersection satisfy both equations simultaneously.
8.EE.8.B8.EE.8.B Solve systems of two linear equations in two variables algebraically, and estimate solutions by graphing the equations. Solve simple cases by inspection. For example, 3x + 2y = 5 and 3x + 2y = 6 have no solution because 3x + 2y cannot simultaneously be 5 and 6.
This expressions and equations lesson teaches students how to interpret the solutions of systems of linear equations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will interpret the solutions of systems of linear equations. Students will interpret a variety of systems of linear equations including several real-world word problems.
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Determine the Slope of a Line Using the Slope Formula
This algebra and functions lesson focuses on determining the slope of a line using the slope formula. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students label the points as x1, y1, and x2, y2. Then, they substitute the y- and x- values into the slope formula. Finally, they determine the slope of the line and interpret it by identifying the direction of the line. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
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Determine the Slope of a Line Using the Slope Formula
This expressions and equations lesson teaches students how to determine the slope of a line using the slope formula. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will determine the slope of a line using the slope formula.