Algebra 1 - Section 7.

3 Lesson Plan
Title: Solving Systems Using Elimination
Objective: Students will be able to solve a system of linear equations by using the
elimination method.
This means that they can eliminate a variable by
adding/subtracting the two equations, and solve for the remaining variable. Then
they can plug that value into any equation and solve for the other variable. These
values will be their solution.
Standards:

ccss.math.practice.mp1: Make sense of problem and persevere in solving

them.
ccss.math.practice.mp2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
ccss.math.practice.mp4: Model with mathematics.

Materials: Students Pen/pencil

Teacher Power point, and smartboard
Assessments:

7.2 Pop Quiz

Next day HW Quiz
student participation and engagement
scale of 1-5 assessment periodically throughout the lesson (teacher ask
students to rate their understanding on a scale of 1-5 using their fingers)

Procedure:
7:307:35: Daily check-in with students.
7:35-7:45: Students will compare their homework answers from the previous night,
and write any questions they have up on the board.
7:45-7:53: Students will take a two question pop quiz on section 7.2
7:53-8:05: Teacher will discuss the first two slides that will introduce the
elimination method, and perform two examples and verbalizing every step that they
will execute.
8:05-8:20: Students will then do 4 examples working with their table partners.
After students have completed the examples, the teacher will ask for volunteers or
choose a table group at random to share their answer with the rest of the class.
8:15-8:20: Students will take a 5 minute break to get up and stretch their legs, or
get a drink of water.
8:20-8:35: The last slide is a word problem, and the students will work on this
problem with their table partner. Teacher will allow the students to struggle and
attempt to persevere before going over the answer with the class.
8:35-8:55: The students will then get 20 minutes to work on their homework.

8:55-9:00: Teacher will wrap up the lesson by asking an exit question and gauge
what the students understanding is.

Differentiation: During classwork time, teacher will walk around and help out
students who may be struggling more to help them get a better understanding.
They will also get a copy of the notes if needed. Higher level learners will be asked
to help lower level learners during classwork time, and be given a different set of
HW problems to challenge them.
Reflection: As expected, students were confused when first introducing this
method, and I had a bunch of 1s and 2s after the first couple of examples.
Students were getting confused with trying to eliminate a variable, and exactly
how we went about doing that. So we did extra practice on the more simpler
elimination problems, and eventually we were to a place where 75% of the class
had a comfort level of a 3 or higher, which will allow us to move on to section 7.4.