Polynomials in The Magical World of Numbers

Pre-Algebra

Name: Daniel Fram (teaching), Elizabeth Walton, Michael Gallagher, George Economides.

Date: June 22, 2007   

Time: 50 minutes

Objective: The student will identify and describe polynomials and their elements.

Materials: Textbook, whiteboard, markers, transparencies and pens, flash cards, buzzer device, red flag

Set: Student reads the objective. Who has heard of elements before?  We’re going to do something like that: we’ll discuss the simple parts that make up the equations, inequalities, and exponents that we’ve been working with all summer.

Procedures:

1.Notes on definitions of terms and their types: monomials, binomials, trinomials

2.Independent Practice.

3.Notes on degrees of polynomials.

4.Independent Practice.

5.Review and combined group practice.

6.Flash card quiz game.

Closure:  Cold call student to say what we covered today: we identified the elements of polynomials, in particular, what a term is, what like terms are, what coefficients and variables are, and what it means for polynomials to have a particular degree.  On Monday, we will be practicing how to add polynomials.

Informal Assessment: Flash card quiz game will allow teacher to observe student comprehension.

Formal Assessment: Quiz will require students to identify polynomials and their elements.

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