Classifying Solutions to Systems of Equations

A little background

  • In case you are trying the MARS MAP Classroom Challenges for the first time, it is recommended that you read the Brief Guide for teachers and administrators before you get started.
  • Before the lesson, students attempt the assessment task individually. You then review students' solutions and formulate questions that will help them improve their work.
  • During the lesson, students work collaboratively in pairs or threes, plotting graphs, completing tables of values and deducing equations. Then, based on the number of common solutions, students link these representations.
  • After a final whole-class discussion, students work individually on a new assessment task.
  • Additional resources for this lesson include: classifying_solutions_slides.ppt

Objectives

  • To help you assess how well students are able to classify solutions to a pair of linear equations by considering their graphical representations.
  • To help you identify and assist students who have difficulties in using substitution to complete a table of values for a linear equation.
  • To help you identify and assist students who have difficulties in identifying a linear equation from a given table of values.
  • To help you identify and assist students who have difficulties in graphing and solving linear equations.
75 mins 8.EE.C.8 8.EE.C.7 8.EE.C 8.EE.C.8.c 8.EE.C.8.a K-12.MP.1 K-12.MP.4 K-12.MP.6 8.EE.C.7A 8.EE.C.7B 8.EE.C.8A 8.EE.C.8B 8.EE.C.8C
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