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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