Scribepost for December 2, 2008 By:Kara
Today in class we started ALGEBRA... dun dun dun.. actually its not that hard. We made a new little booklet about it too. We labeled the booklet "My Algebra Words." Mr.Harbeck also gave us our pink booklet about algebra.I'm now going to try to explain what we learned about algebra as best as I can, I'm going to use the example we did in class today. Here is an ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION (an algebra question that can have many answers.)
This is not a completed equation yet, there are many answers to this question and you can only have one. It should be like this
That is what we learned about how to do algebra today.
We wrote that example on the first square. On the second-sixth square was part of our homework. On the second square we wrote all of the different adding words. On the third square we wrote all of the different subtraction words. On the fourth square we wrote all of the different multiplying words. On the fifth square we wrote all of the different dividing words. Finally on the sixth square we wrote all of the different words for equals.
Our homework today was the first ten questions on the first page of the pink booklet, and the five squares on our "My algebra words" booklet.
I found an algebra website and a video that might be helpful.
Click HERE to go to the website
I hope that the video helps too!!
For the next scribe I choose Myles.
PLEASE COMMENT!! COMMENTS ARE HELPFUL !!
Some other ways to say this question are: a number plus six
unknown number plus six
a number plus positive six (there is a pattern)
In this question n is the VARIABLE (a letter that represents a number)
This is not a completed equation yet, there are many answers to this question and you can only have one. It should be like this
Now that there is an answer to the question, this algebraic expression has turned into an ALGEBRAIC EQUATION (an algebra question with only one answer).
Some other ways to say this equation are: a number plus six equals fourteen
a number AND six is fourteen.
Now you just subtract 6 from 14 and you have the answer
That is what we learned about how to do algebra today.
We wrote that example on the first square. On the second-sixth square was part of our homework. On the second square we wrote all of the different adding words. On the third square we wrote all of the different subtraction words. On the fourth square we wrote all of the different multiplying words. On the fifth square we wrote all of the different dividing words. Finally on the sixth square we wrote all of the different words for equals.
Our homework today was the first ten questions on the first page of the pink booklet, and the five squares on our "My algebra words" booklet.
I found an algebra website and a video that might be helpful.
Click HERE to go to the website
I hope that the video helps too!!
For the next scribe I choose Myles.
PLEASE COMMENT!! COMMENTS ARE HELPFUL !!
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