John Reker

I wanted to create a way that students could learn how to solve equations in an easy way that kept their attention. These lessons take their time and help students with solving equations step-by-step.

In this lesson, the students begin learning how to perform multiple steps to solving for the missing variable. The lesson requires them to learn what to do when they have coins added to multiple bags. The students will also carry on what they learned in the third lesson by checking their work.

In this lesson, the students will begin to write an equation solve for the missing variable using addition and subtraction by seeing how many coins could go into a bag by either taking coins away or adding coins.

In this lesson, the students will learn what to do when bags and/or coins are on both sides of the equation. To solve for the number of coins in a bag, we have been putting bags on one side of the equal sign and coins on the other side. We are going to keep this same idea when there are bags or coins on both sides.

In this lesson, the students learn about the distributive property by looking at groupings of bags and coins inside of trucks. This way the students see that there are multiples of the same thing in different spots. The lesson starts with explaining how to distribute and equation, then solve them.

In this lesson, we will be looking at what happens when we have two steps and subtraction. Here is a way to look at it: You are walking with your 2 bags of coins and you drop 3 coins on the ground. How do you calculate how many coins you had in each bag before dropping the other coins?

In this lesson, the students are guided on how to separate coins into mulitple bags leading them to learn how to solve a mulitplication or division equation.

In this lesson we will talk about combining the same things on one side of the equal sign in order to make an equation easier to understand and solve.

In this lesson, students learn how to do the thing we always want them to do, but they never seem to get around to it.............CHECKING THEIR WORK!

This quiz is very direct and covers the standard for 7th Grade Scale well.