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=Answers to Questions: For Unit 3=

1. Design of lesson is on previous pages

2. The students at SIATech are at least 3 to 4 grade levels behind in understanding solving linear equations. This lesson is meant to provide some scaffolding of this context area. 3. The vocabulary tasks, modeling, word conversion activities are here to help students who may have language deficiencies in this area. 4. This lesson fits the beginner as well as students who may pick-up this concept very quickly. I puposely provided "visuals" and hands-on drawing of models to help certain learners. 5. Students may fail to use the correct sign when applying inverse operations. Students will be told to copy the original equation carefully and to verify that they are using the inverse operation. 6. My assessments evaluate students' abilities in word to expression conversion, modeling equations, and problem solving by using the Identity properties. All of these specifics are covered in the stated standards. 7. One particular teaching strategy I will use in this lesson to help ELL students is to avoid using the word "cancel" when refering to adding the inverse of a number. What they should understand and learn to say is "The adding of the inverse equals zero" and that "The dividing of the inverse equals one." This I believe will add more to their ability to understand and apply the Indentity properties to solve one-step equations.