options: Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.

Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.

Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.

Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.

Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.

Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.

Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.

Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.

Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.

Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.
problem_activity: Warm-up
The purpose of this warm-up is for students to practice solving an equation for an unknown value while thinking about a coordinate pair,
\((x,y)\)
, that makes the equation true. While the steps to solve the equation are the same regardless of which value of
\(x\)
students choose, there are strategic choices that make solving the resulting equation simpler. This should be highlighted in the discussion.
Launch
Encourage students to not pick 0 for
\(x\)
each time.
Student Facing
For each equation choose a value for
\(x\)
and then solve to find the corresponding
\(y\)
value that makes that equation true.
\(6x=7y\)
\(5x+3y=9\)
\(y+5-\frac13 x=7\)
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Collect the pairs of
\(x\)
’s and
\(y\)
’s students calculated and graph them on a set of axes. For each equation, they form a different line. Have students share how they picked their
\(x\)
values. For example:
For the first problem, choosing
\(x\)
to be a multiple of 7 makes
\(y\)
an integer.
For the last problem, picking
\(x\)
to be a multiple of 3 makes
\(y\)
an integer.


correct_option_index: 7