Teagan Nurnberger
Cover Letter
DHH 350
For this unit, I wanted to explore what it was like to write lesson plans for a high school mathematics class. Algebra was one of my favorite classes in high school and I was interested in writing out lessons for that subject. I believe algebra is a very computational heavy course and I wanted to find a way to explore how to teach that and convey the rules in an engaging way. I wanted to write this unit for 9th grade because I love how 9th graders are still young and getting use to high school; therefore, I believe they will be more willing to get up and try new things.
This unit includes the exploration of The Real Number System, specifically rational numbers, irrational numbers, and exponents and how they relate to the Real Number System. By exploring the exponents first, we see how various exponents effect each number. For example, 3^-2 makes the number 1/9, but 3^2 is just 9. We learn these rules first and
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The summative assessment has two parts. The first focuses on students expressing their thought process in an interview- like assessment. By doing this, students are asked to justify their thinking, convince the assessor why they are correct, and think critically about the problems given to them. This will allow the assessor to ask the question why, something a written test cannot do. Having students explain this why asks them to pull from all they learned in this past unit. If they are successful in this, it is then evident they learned something from the unit and what was taught. For the second assessment, it asks many different types of questions, including true/false, multiple choice, open ended, and word problems. By doing this, students are having to use their knowledge and understanding of the material and apply it to many different types of