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Eighteen Flavors Lesson PlanEighteen Flavors Lesson Plan
Publisher
Marilyn Burns Education Associates
Resource Details
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Grade
7th - 8th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Technology
Calculator
Year
2004
Lesson Plan

Eighteen Flavors

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Your learners will be tantalized by this inquiry-based, collaborative activity as they discover how to write an equation that represents the height of an ice cream cone. Given the scenario based on the poem, "Eighteen Flavors," and guided by your questions, learners measure, model, and record their findings and strategies in their math notebooks as they begin their journey into the abstract world of using variables and equations to represent real-life situations.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

measurement, variables, number patterns, diameter, cones, creating equations, Problem Solving

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • As you read this sample lesson write down questions that will guide your learners toward the learning goal. Avoid giving learners answers or information. Guide them by questioning. 

Pros

  • Includes blackline masters of the shapes needed in the activity
  • Includes dialogue script of actual lesson to show teacher questioning techniques

Cons

  • None

Common Core

6.EE.A.2.a MP1 MP2 MP3 MP4 MP5 MP6 MP7 MP8

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