Week 12 - Integrated Lesson Plan

This lesson is planned for the early stages of my Pre-Algebra Class.  My plan is to use technology to help students to use manipulatives (Algebra Tiles) to balance and solve equations at the early stages of algebra.  As the foundation of everything that the students will learn in the coming years, I feel that it is especially important that students understand every aspect of this lesson while being able to enjoy it (especially something as fundamental is solving equations).

With the numerous digital options such as a SMART Board (which has templates specifically for this task), I plan to immerse my students into the world of algebra in a fun and interactive way.  The students will be able to visually learn how manipulatives can be used to solve equations as well as being able to perform the tasks themselves on the SMART Board.

While a student or myself, would use the SMART Board to demonstrate how to solve an equation, the rest of the class would use algebra tiles on a hand-out.  This hands-on activity will allow the students to grasp a better understanding of how to balance and solve equations.


This lesson should take 3 days (allowing every student a chance to use the SMART Board) with a quiz on the material at the end of the 3rd day.  I would plan on allowing the students to use a java style program (Trying to find one at the moment) to allow students to use manipulatives while taking their quiz.  My goal would be an average grade of 90% from my students on this quiz.

PS - These tiles can be used for many other activities such as adding/subtracting integers, adding/ subtracting/multiplying/dividing polynomials, factoring polynomials or even fun styles of related math games.  -SCHAMA SIGNING OFF