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.