This package includes three lesson plans focusing on writing and solving multistep equations. 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 a digital learning experience intended as an extension or practice opportunity after initial instruction. The second activity involves the production of an artifact of learning in a collaborative, small group setting. The third lesson extends learning from algebraic manipulation to include solving by graphing and solutions of systems of equations.

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

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:

Additional problems with solutions

All materials to implement the lessons in multiple formats (editable and PDF)

PowerPoints included have slide information listed in the lesson plan

PowerPoint files are intentionally simple, as many teachers like to customize them or use templates

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

Script for the video

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

Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) Targeted:

MGSE7.EE.4 Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical problem, and construct simple equations and inequalities to solve problems by reasoning about the quantities.

MGSE8.EE.7 Solve linear equations in one variable.

MGSE9-12.A.CED.1 Create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems. Include equations arising from linear, quadratic, simple rational, and exponential functions (integer inputs only).

MGSE9-12.A.CED.1 Create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems. Include equations arising from linear, quadratic, simple rational, and exponential functions (integer inputs only).

MGSE9-12.A.CED.3 Represent constraints by equations or inequalities, and by systems of equations and/or inequalities, and interpret data points as possible (i.e. a solution) or not possible (i.e. a non-solution) under the established constraints.

MGSE9-12.A.REI.1 Using algebraic properties and the properties of real numbers, justify the steps of a simple, one-solution equation. Students should justify their own steps, or if given two or more steps of an equation, explain the progression from one step to the next using properties.

MGSE9-12.A.REI.3 Solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable including equations with coefficients represented by letters.

MGSE9-12.A.REI.6 Solve systems of linear equations exactly and approximately (e.g., with graphs), focusing on pairs of linear equations in two variables.