What's Your Story
Math: Middle Grades Math: Expressions and Equations
6-8
45 Minutes
TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
3.0
Lessons
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.
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Math: Middle Grades Math: Expressions and Equations
6-8
45 Minutes
TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
3.0
Lessons
TNS
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