Learning Experience Plan

Subject: Algebra

Grade level: 9

Unit: Solving Equations and Inequalities

25 minutes

Length of LEP: 1 day/1 period/

Topic: Solving for Equations using Multiplication and Division

Content Standards: Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning
and explain the reasoning. 1. Explain each step in solving a simple equation as
following from the equality of numbers asserted at the previous step, starting from
the assumption that the original equation has a solution. Construct a viable
argument to justify a solution method. 2. Solve simple rational and radical equations
in one variable, and give examples showing how extraneous solutions may arise.
Literacy Standards:
Learning Experience Outcomes
(knowledge/skills)

Students will use multiplication and

division in order to solve one variable
equations.

Differentiation
Approaching

Learning Experience Assessments

Do Now: Students will write the checklist
from yesterdays lesson on their own white
board, then use that to predict what the
checklist for todays lesson will be.
Matching Equations Worksheet
Homework Worksheet with word problems

(What will you do to meet the needs of students at these different levels?)

On-level

Beyond

Curriculum Integration (Does this lesson correlate with any other content area? Describe.)
Through going over the vocabulary of the unit brings English Language Arts into the
lesson. This teaches students how to use the meaning of words to help them solve
equations. English is also incorporated into the homework worksheet. The word
problems allow students to use context clues to create the equations that need to be
solved in each problem.
Materials

Procedures/Strategies

Computer/

Day 2

Power Point

Sponge Activity

Expo
markers

Individually, students will rewrite the checklist on how to solve an

equation using addition and subtraction. Then, they will edit it to how
they think the checklist would look for using multiplication and division.
Next, we will officially fill in the chart together on Power Point.

Pencil/Pen
Classwork

Worksheet
Day 2
Matching
Equations
Worksheet
Homework
Worksheet
Homework
Rubric

Anticipatory Set
How do we solve equations using multiplication and division?
Activating Prior Knowledge
Students will use their knowledge from last lesson to make an educated
guess on how to solve equations using multiplication/division instead of
addition/subtraction.
Direct Instruction (input, modeling, check for understanding)
1. Go over the do now, and give the correct steps of how to solve a
one-variable equation using multiplication/division:
a. Identify the variable: 3x = 10.
b. Multiply or divide the number from both sides of the
equals sign. Do the opposite operation to both sides of the
equal sign to solve the problem:
(1/3)3x = (1/3)10
c. Get the variable by itself: x = 10/3
2. Input: Review the vocabulary of the unit from the previous lesson
plus a new word, including:
Constant: a number that is on its own
Variable: the quantity that may change; the symbol
Root(s): the answer of the equation
Coefficient: the number right next to the variable
Then, as a class we will label these terms in the equation 3x = 10.
3. Do examples of equations with multiplication as a class: 5x = 15
and -3a = 21.
4. Do examples of equations with division as a class: b/4 = 10 and
n/6 = -4.
5. Go over how to check each equation by plugging the answer back
into the original equation. For example, 5x = 15, x=3, so to
check: 5x = 15, 5(3) = 15, 15 = 15.
Guided Practice (how students will demonstrate their grasp of new learning)
Matching Equations: Students will pick one partner to work with to solve
each equation on the left and match it to the correct answer on the
right. They must show all their work in their own notebook to support
what they did to get the right answers.
Independent Practice (what students will do to reinforce learning of the lesson)
For homework, students will complete a worksheet that is to be handed
in the next day before the beginning of class. The worksheet shows the
students how this lesson connects to the real world. It contains 3 word
problems that must be answered by showing all work and a check to

prove the answer is correct. Students will be assessed using the

FULL/PARTIAL credit rubric.
Closure (action/statement by teacher designed to bring lesson presentation to an appropriate
close)
At the end of the lesson, the whole class will review the steps for how to
solve one step equations using both addition/subtraction and
multiplication/division. They would then be asked to think what the steps
would be if an equation contained both addition/subtraction and
multiplication/division, to prepare for the next lesson.

References: http://www.mathworksheets4kids.com/equations/one-step/integersmulti-divi-4.pdf and https://www.quia.com/mc/540939.html