They did a good job with it, but I wanted to take some time today to model how to solve a problem and to develop some success criteria for problem solving.
I gathered students at a whiteboard at the back of the room and we started working on the problem. As we worked through the problem I would periodically stop and ask what we had just done. The peer tutor wrote a list on a different board of all the things we talked about. Here are some of the things we talked about:
Once we were done most students really wanted to get a picture of the list. I guess something about our process spoke to them as being important. We'll come back to the criteria next time I give out a problem.
The plan for today was to look at the equation of a line in standard form. I had groups do the following:
Some of them struggled a fair bit with part b, but other groups blasted through it quickly. Once they were finished we talked briefly about what standard form is and consolidated how to convert from standard form to slope/y-intercept form (since many groups ended up doing some rearranging when making a table of values).
We did an example, then I gave out some practice questions (question 1).
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