Help learners understand the benefits of rearranging a formula. Scholars practice rearranging formulas for specific variables. They also analyze formulas to understand one variable's effect on the other. 

Concepts

formulas, solving equations

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use whiteboards to allow learners to make mistakes and show the class how to correct them
• Introduce the lesson using an application problem that is asking for a distance traveled given a speed and time;, and highlight the efficiency of solving the speed formula for distance

Classroom Considerations

• Builds directly from the previous lessons in the series
• The lesson is the 12th in a 20-part series

Pros

• Uses good questioning techniques to help learners understand the variable relationships within a formula

Cons

• Practice problems are missing some concepts addressed in the example problems

Common Core

HSA-CED.A.4