options: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
problem_activity: Optional activity
In this activity, students solve a variety of systems of equations, some involving fractions, some involving substitution, and some involving inspection. This gives students a chance to practice using the methods they have learned in this section for solving systems of equations to solidify that learning. Some of the systems listed are ones students could have used in an earlier activity in this lesson, to describe the situations there. In the discussion, students compare the systems here to the ones they wrote in that activity and interpret the answer in that context.
Launch
Keep students in groups of 2. Allow students 5–7 minutes of partner work time followed by a whole-class discussion.
Representation: Internalize Comprehension
. Activate or supply background knowledge. Allow students to use calculators to ensure inclusive participation in the activity.
Supports accessibility for: Memory; Conceptual processing
Student Facing
Here are a lot of systems of equations:
\(\begin{cases} y=\text-2x+6 \\ y=x-3 \end{cases}\)
\(\begin{cases} y=5x-4 \\ y=4x+12 \end{cases}\)
\(\begin{cases} y=\frac23x-4 \\ y=\text-\frac43x+9 \end{cases}\)
\(\begin{cases} 4y + 7x = 6 \\ 4y+7x = \text-5 \end{cases}\)
\(\begin{cases} y=x - 6\\ x=6 + y \end{cases}\)
\(\begin{cases} y=0.24x\\ y=0.18x+0.9 \end{cases}\)
\(\begin{cases} y=4.5x+15 \\ y=5x+12.5 \end{cases}\)
\(\begin{cases} y=3x \\ x+y=52 \end{cases}\)
Without solving, identify 3 systems that you think would be the least difficult for you to solve and 3 systems you think would be the most difficult. Be prepared to explain your reasoning.
Choose 4 systems to solve. At least one should be from your "least difficult" list and one should be from your "most difficult" list.
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
There are two key takeaways from this discussion. The first is to reinforce that some systems can be solved by reasoning whether its possible for a solution to one equation to also be a solution to another. The second takeaway is that there are some systems that students will only be able to solve after learning techniques in future grades.
For each problem, ask students to indicate if they identified the system as least or most difficult. Record the responses for all to see.
Bring students' attention to this system:
\(\begin{cases} 4y + 7x = 6 \\ 4y+7x = \text-5 \end{cases}\)
Ask students what the two equations in the system have in common to each other and to think about whether a solution to the first equation could also be a solution to the second. One can reason there is no solution because
\(4y+7x\)
cannot be equal to both 6 and -5.
Ask students to return to the earlier activity and see if they can find any of those systems in these problems. (Lin's family ride is the sixth system. Noah's kayaking trip is the seventh system. Diego's baking is the eighth system.) After students notice the connection, invite students who chose those systems to solve to interpret the numerical solutions in the contexts from the earlier activity.
Students may be tempted to develop the false impression that all systems where both equations are given as linear combinations can be solved by inspection. Conclude the discussion by displaying this system that students defined in the last activity about sugar and flour:
\(\begin{cases} 0.8x+0.5y = 9 \\ x+y = 15 \end{cases}\)
Tell students that this system has one solution and they will learn more sophisticated techniques for solving systems of equations like this in future grades.
Speaking, Listening, Conversing: MLR8 Discussion Supports.
Before the whole-class discussion, use this routine to give students an opportunity to discuss their reasons for labeling systems of equations as “least difficult” or “most difficult.” Provide the following sentence frame: “_____ is the least/most difficult to solve because _____.” Encourage listeners to press for detail by asking questions such as “What would make that problem easier to solve?”; “What do your least/most difficult problems have in common?” This will help students make connections between the structures of given systems of equations, and possible strategies they can use to solve them.
Design Principle(s): Cultivate conversation; Maximize meta-awareness


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