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Math Lesson Plan

YOUR NAME: Marissa McCarty LESSON TITLE: PEMDAS SUBJECT AREA: Math GRADE LEVEL: 8th TIME ALLOCATION: 50 min OBJECTIVES: 1. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of PEMDAS by completing an exit survey correctly. (cognitive) 2. Students will discuss with group members the proper way to complete a problem. (affective) 3. Students will solve problems by putting the parenthesis in the right place to make the statement correct (psychomotor) STANDARDS: Standard: Number, Number Sense and Operations Benchmarks: Apply properties of operations and the real number system, and justify when they hold for a set of numbers. Indicator: Apply order of operations to simplify expressions and perform computations involving integer exponents and radicals. GROUPING OF STUDENTS: Advance Organizer: Students will be working as a whole class to discuss PEMDAS and work on group work. Activity: Students will work in groups to complete problems on strips of paper; they must all contribute to the problem in some way. Post Activity: At the end of the lesson, students will come back as a whole class and review the correct answers. MATERIALS: Strips of paper for each group with problems on them PRIOR KNOWLEDGE NEEDED: Students will need to understand how parentheses are used and how to compute exponents. It is also important to understand the properties of multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS: No safety considerations needed.

STUDENT PROFILE: These students are 8th graders at St. Vincent Elementary school in Akron, Oh. The students are overall well behaved and are used to a lecture-based classroom They may be more perceptive to a lesson, which involves moving around the room. MODIFICATIONS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: Students with special needs will be given extra time. Students with special needs will also be put in groups with people who understand what is going on so that they may work together.

INSTRUCTIONAL MODELS: The instructional model used during this lesson will be cooperative learning. Giving the students a chance to work together lets them not only interact with each other but also teach each other maybe in a different way than what I would tell them. Working together gives them the opportunity to learn from each other. PROCEDURE AND ACTIVITIES TIME:

1. PRE-ACTIVITY: Presentation Teaching Introduce Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally to students, explaining that it stands for Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction and that is the order that you would complete a problem in. Teacher would show problems on the board such as (2+4)-8^4 and have the students solve. Once students are able to show understanding, the teacher may move on. Transition: Good, now we are going to make it a little harder. I am going to give you a problem without parenthesis and you will figure out where they belong to make the statement true. 2. ACTIVITY: Cooperative Learning Teacher would break students into groups and give them a strip of paper with a problem on one at a time making sure to explain that it is not a race to see what group gets don first. Students will work on the problem as a group and when they believe they have the right answer they will take it to the teacher to be checked, if they get it correct they are able to move on to the next problem, if it is not correct, the must try again. Students are given time to work on the group problems before moving on. At the end of the lesson the teacher would bring the students back together as a class for the next section. Transition: Lets pull back together and talk about this so that we can see where the problems lie. 4. POST ACTIVITY: Discussion and Assessment Teacher will pull the students back together as a group and they will go over the correct answers to the slips. Students will demonstrate on the board the correct answers. After discussing how the process works again, the teacher will hand out exit slips to judge how each individual student is doing with learning the concept. Closure: The teacher will collect the exit slips as students finish.

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SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT In order to assess the students understanding of order of operations, the teacher will grade the exit slips and decide if the students are prepared to continue on to the next chapter.

1. 34 12 4 21 = 2. 4 9 3 3 =
2

52 3 0 46 12 4

3. 16 8 2 4 =
3

4. 22 8 2 6 = 5. 5 3 15 5 = 6. 8 4 12 3 =
3 2

7. 9 3 12 4 3 = 30 8. 18 40 4 3 =
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