Prior to starting this unit students should be able to recognise simple number patterns (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and indices) and understand that (multiplication and division) and (addition and subtraction) are opposite terms. We will start with an activity to reinforce working with positive and negative numbers at Algebasics.
“Maths is Fun” has a good Introduction to Algebra, that we will go through in class. Students then need to be able to recognise like and unlike terms. There are some more practise questions at MCA Online: Like and Unlike Terms Algebra for Children is another site that may assist you to work with like and unlike terms.
As each of you have netbooks to use at school and at home, you may like to access the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives site, which has a great range of interactive tasks for year 6 to 8 Algebra. I like the “Coin Problem”; “Factor Tree” and “Function Machine”.
I would like to be basing this unit of work on some of Dan Meyer’s Resources at “Algebra: The Supplement”. Dan Meyer has curated 40 weeks of algebra learning activities, while we have just ten weeks until the end if term, so we will try to do some of the most powerful problems that have been posed.
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i learnt the most from factor tree, the rest of the games were okay
I learnt the most from the function machine… 🙂
i learnt the most from factor tree the rest of the games were okay
The games were okay. I learnt a bit from the factor tree game. All were okay.
I learnt more from the function machine 🙂
The coin problem game was alright…. I learnt a bit from the factor tree..
I learnt the most from the function machine 🙂
i learnt the most from factor tree 🙂
i learnt more from the function machine
I learnt the most from the factor tree 🙂
I liked the funtion machine because i had to work out a number of patterns and equations but i thought the shapes sheet was challenging
Function Machine