Day 49: Math 6 - One-Step Equations / Math 6+ - Determining Slope from a Graphed Line

Math 6 students completed Calculation Quiz One - Quarter Two today in class. Students then continued their work with solving one-step equations using multiplication and division.

Some students get mad during Calculation Quizzes.

Calculation quizzes cause people to think.

Math 6+ students completed Calculation Quiz One - Quarter Two today in class. Mr. Giomini modeled how to determine whether two lines were perpendicular or parallel when calculating their slope. Students also found the slope of a line when plotting point on a graphed line.

Standards addressed in class today:

Math 6:

• Understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true? Use substitution to determine whether a given number in a specified set makes an equation or inequality true.
• Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations of the form x + p = q and px = q for cases in which p, q and x are all nonnegative rational numbers.

Math 6+:

• Solve linear equations in one variable. 
• 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). 
• b. Solve linear equations with rational number coefficients, including equations whose solutions require expanding expressions using the distributive property and collecting like terms.