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Middle School Math, Logic, and Problem Solving: Equations and Expressions

Completed by 9 learners
Ages 10-13
Live Group Class
This five-week course is part of a series of math courses designed to support neurodivergent learners. It includes a review and extension of previous topics and uses a problem-based curriculum to explore pre-algebra.
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Live video meetings
5x per week, 3 weeks
3-5 learners per class
50 min

What's included

15 live meetings
12 hrs 30 mins in-class hours
Homework
1 hour per week. Students may have up to ten minutes of work to wrap up after the end of each session depending on time management during the session. Otherwise, all work will be completed in the session.
Assessment
Students will receive a weekly written progress report. Two numerical assessment grades can be provided if requested.
Grading
included

Class Experience

US Grade 5 - 8
Please Note : Time Change after Winter Break from 9 am PST to 12 PM PST. 

This is the fourth course in a series of micro-classes for middle school math. These micro classes are a hybrid of individualized learning and traditional classes. Each section has no more than five learners which provide a foundation for strong relationships, social-emotional learning, and truly individualized instruction. 
This series is based on an accelerated math curriculum that covers three years of content, aligned to Common Core Math Standards, over the course of two school years. It is perfect for students beginning middle school and students who need to catch up. The curriculum is problem-based this means instead of lectures or videos students work together as a small group to solve problems to discover principles and strategies with teacher guidance, as necessary. Therefore, we will spend approximately 90% of each class period working on problems and discussing them as a group. The use of discussion and problem-solving leads to generalized mathematics or proofs. This process prepares students well who may seek advanced mathematics in high-school or beyond. Students will complete a math notebook In the style of a “Main Lesson” book found in Waldorf and Steiner education philosophies to help with recall and long-term retention.
This unit is a five-week study of pre-algebra in which students develop a fundamental understanding of independent and dependent variables, coefficients, expressions, equivalent expressions, and exponents. They learn more efficient strategies for writing equations and work with positive whole number exponents and whole number, fraction, and variable bases. They will learn to solve linear equations with a single variable and simple equations with exponents. They will use these as tools to reason about the real world and geometrical situations and learn to represent and share this information in graphs and tables. 
Week 1: Students will learn to represent and solve equations with one variable beginning with tape diagrams, learning to understand whether equations are true or false, and balancing simple equations using the "mobile" strategy, they will also reconnect the knowledge of fractions and division. 
Week 2: Students begin writing expressions where letters stand for numbers and develop a logical system for explaining these choices. They revisit percentages in the context of simple equations and began working with equivalent equations. They will also apply their knowledge of the distributive property to problems. 
Week 3: Students will review what they've learned so far and take a mid-unit check-in to guide their practice and prepare for the second half of the class. They will also apply what they've learned to area, volume, and surface area to begin understanding the meaning of exponents. 
Week 4: Students work with exponents in expressions beginning with representing them, than evaluating simple expressions with exponents, and then working with equivalent exponential expressions. 
Week 5: Students learn to create equations and visual representations for systems involving two related quantities including identifying independent and dependent variables. They will work with tables, equations, and graphs in a project-based lesson. They will take an end-of-unit assessment.

Learning Goals

Students will understand and use the terms variable, coefficient, solutions, equivalent expressions, exponent, independent variable, and dependent variable. 
Students will write understand and use equations with coefficients and understand the "invisible 1" and "next-to" notation. 
They will work with whole-number exponents with whole number, fraction, or variable bases. They will use the properties of exponents to evaluate expressions. 
Students will find solutions to linear equations with one variable. 
Students will work with systems of equations using a mobile or balanced hanger framework. 
Students will work with simple exponential equations. 
Students will use these as tools to reason with math and the real world.
They will represent collections of equivalent ratios as equations and use them to make connections between tables, graphs, and linear equations.

Other Details

Supply List
Graph Paper                         Pencil
Colored Pencils                    Notebook
Scissors                               Whiteboard
Index Cards                         Markers
Language of Instruction
English
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
This course uses strategies and resources from the Illustrative Mathematics Accelerated Course for grades six to eight which is licenses under an attribution creative commons license.

Meet the teacher

Joined April, 2021
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I have been completed three college-level courses on common-core math instruction. I have worked as a math instructor for middle school students in a private school setting. I have ten years of experience as a math tutor including working with students from ages 5 (kindergarten) to 25 (Graduate Readiness Exam).

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