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Subject: Math
Lesson Length: 20 - 35 min
Topic: Operations & Algebraic Thinking- Interpret Numerical Expressions
Grade Level: 5
Objective: Critical thinking, Evaluation
Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.OA.A.1, CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.OA.A.2
Brief Description: Students will write their own equations using parentheses, brackets, and/or braces and explain the order of how to solve.
Know Before You Start: Students should have prior practice with solving equations or expressions involving parentheses, brackets, and/or braces.
Hook: Students will work in pairs to solve the sample problem in the comic.
Activity: Students will write their own equation using parentheses, brackets, and/or braces in 1 frame. Students will explain the order of how to solve that equation in an additional 3-6 frames.
Closure:
Students will review and recite/chant the order for solving equations/expressions with parentheses, brackets, and/or braces.
Differentiation:
- Scaffold instruction by providing a visual with step by step directions with the order of operations
- Allow students to work with a peer model
ELL supports
- Peer Model
- Allow students to write in their home language
Resources:
- Students should write out and try their equations on a scratch piece of paper first, to be sure it works first, before explaining the solving process.
- Example comic to print or display: Comic
