Education Technology

What's Your Story

Subject Area
Math: Middle Grades Math: Expressions and Equations
Level
6-8
Activity Time
45 Minutes
TI Calculator
TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
TI-Nspire Version
3.0
Resource Types
Lessons
Format
TNS

What's Your Story

Activity Overview

This lesson involves reverse engineering of word problems.

Objectives

  • Students will create realistic word problems when given the equation that models a situation.

Vocabulary

  • model
  • equation
  • graph
  • expression
  • independent variable
  • dependent variable
  • function
  • variable
  • reverse engineering

About the Lesson

This lesson involves reverse engineering of word problems.
As a result, students will:

  • Write an equation from a traditional word problem.
  • Explore a given equation numerically and graphically.
  • Create a word problem that is modeled by the given equation.

Subject Area
Math: Middle Grades Math: Expressions and Equations
Level
6-8
Activity Time
45 Minutes
TI Calculator
TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
TI-Nspire Version
3.0
Resource Types
Lessons
Format
TNS
iPad is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Vernier EasyData,Vernier EasyLink and Vernier EasyTemp are registered trademarks of Vernier Science Education.