Keeping the Meaning in Mathematics: The Craft of Word Problems

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.06.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Rationale
  2. Strategies
  3. Ice -Breaker - I
  4. Lesson One - Notation Development (whole class discussion)
  5. Lesson Two - Simplifying Expressions
  6. Lesson Three - Translations of Verbal Descriptions (addition/subtraction)
  7. Lesson Four - Translations of Verbal Descriptions (multiplication/division)
  8. Lesson Five - Distributive Property
  9. Lesson 6 - Combination - These problems combines all the components of the unit for reinforcement.
  10. Lesson Seven - Application and Reinforcement
  11. Appendix 1 - ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS
  12. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR TEACHERS
  13. STUDENTS RESOUCRES
  14. Classroom Material
  15. Implementing District Standards

Linear Expressions and Evaluations

Angel Johnson

Published September 2007

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Appendix 1 - ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS

"Common Language"

Addition

Add

Augment

Combine

Enlarge

Exceeds

Gain

Greater than

Grow

In all

Increase by

Larger than

More than

Plus

Rise

Sum

Total

Subtraction

decreased

deduct

depreciate

difference

diminish

drop

fewer

left

less than

lose

loss

lower

minus

remain

remove

smaller than

Subtract

Take away

Multiplication

cubed

double

factor

multiple of

multiply

quadruple

squared

times

triple

twice

Division

average

(a) fourth

divided by

equally

half

per

quotient

ratio

shared

split

(a) third

Adopted from The Math Teacher's Book of List

Properties of Operations with Real Numbers:

Commutative Property of Addition a + b = b + a

Commutative Property of Multiplication ab = ba

Associative Property of Addition (a + b ) + c = a + (b + c)

Associative Property of Multiplication (ab)c = a(bc)

Additive Identity Property a + 0 = 0 + a

Multiplicative Identify Property a* 1 = 1 * a = a

Additive Inverse Property a + (-a) = 0

Multiplicative Inverse Property a * (1/a) = 1, a ≠ 0

Distributive Property a(b + c) = ab + ac

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