Variables in context (6 lessons)

In this sequence of 6 lessons, students learn to represent unknowns, expand and solve equations, classify shapes, and apply modelling in contextual worded problems.

Additional details

Year level(s) Year 7
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Concrete Representational Abstract model, Questioning, Worked examples, Explicit teaching, Mathematics investigation
Keywords summative assessment, mathematical modelling, rules, graphs and fucntions, substitution, variables

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Algebra
Topics Algebraic expressions
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M7A01
Recognise and use variables to represent everyday formulas algebraically and substitute values into formulas to determine an unknown

Numeracy progression Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P6)

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Organisation

Victoria State Government Department of Education

Copyright

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