The Business of Writing and Solving Single-Step Equations (Lesson Plan Package)

This package includes three lesson plans focusing on writing and solving single-step equations and inequalities. Each lesson plan uses animation as the springboard into an activity. While I include the Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE), all lessons are written to be used with matching state and national standards that include real-world applications.

The first lesson is for practicing solving equations and mental math. It includes 35 single-step equations and prompts to solve them. The second lesson focuses on introducing writing and solving single-step equations and inequalities. It contains 16 career-oriented real-world applications of single-step equations and inequalities for an activity involving peer evaluation. The third lesson focuses on fast practice of solving single-step equations. This lesson includes a program that generates random equations. Over 75 additional questions, prompts, and problems are included.

This video is freely available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/o1Rxxco4sUE

Each lesson plan includes:

Short summary

Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)

Learning targets

Time stamps for pause points associated with lesson goals and learning targets

Questions to ask students and expected answers

Accommodations for the activities

Each package includes:

Solutions, steps, and explanations for the problems shown in the video

Script for the video

All documents editable in Microsoft Office formats and as PDF to maintain formatting

Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) Targeted:

MGSE6.EE.5 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.

MGSE6.EE.6 Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions when solving a real-world or mathematical problem; understand that a variable can represent an unknown number, or, depending on the purpose at hand, any number in a specified set.

MGSE6.EE.7 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.

MGSE6.EE.8 Write an inequality of the form x > c or x < c to represent a constraint or condition in a real-world or mathematical problem. Recognize that inequalities of the form x > c or x < c have infinitely many solutions; represent solutions of such inequalities on number line diagrams.