2 Truths and Equations |Staying in Balance

This accelerated lesson contains activities from Lessons 2 and 3 in the student workbook.

🎯Learning Targets

  • I can replace a variable in an equation with a number that makes the equation true, and know that this number is called a solution to the equation.
  • I can match equations to real life situations they could represent.
  • I can explain what a balanced hanger and a true equation have in common.
  • I can write equations that could represent the weights on a balanced hanger.
  • I can compare doing the same thing to the weights on each side of a balanced hanger to solving equations by subtracting the same amount from each side or dividing each side by the same number.

📺Videos

How to Test Solutions to Equations Using Substitution

Why Aren't We Using the Multiplication Sign?

Why We Do the Same Thing to Both Sides of Equations

How to Represent a Relationship with a Simple Equation

How to Divide from Both Sides of an Equation

Intuition for Solving One-step Equations

📓Student Edition

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