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Group 1 - Grade 7 - Unit 2 (Jason, Nabgha, Peter)
This is a lesson on adding integers (both positive and negative). It does so by providing number lines for each question which students can draw on and solve the equation. This lesson is great because it gives students the visual representation of the numbers being added and the solution, i.e. use of number line. Also, there is a GSP file which the students can load and work on the technology-based tool. It really gets the students to think about the question we posed: How can you subtract by adding?
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Group 2 - Grade 7 - Unit 3 ( Caroline Ferguson, Sean Crowley, Adele Hedrick)
Uses a class survey to create data, and uses mathematical approach to create accurate circle graphs with the data. The three class surveys are engaging and every student can participate. Clickers for the class survey could easily be incorporated into this lesson. Class survey questions could be easily adapted to reflect students’ interests. Not many resources are required for this lesson (pencil, paper, protractor, print out). Good higher order thinking questions (“if all of the angles added up to 340 degrees, what would this indicate?”) and group work are included. Lesson relates to prior knowledge and makes connections between fractions, percentages, and angles.
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Group 4 - Grade 7 - Unit 5(Lauren, Warren, Jacob)
At the beginning of the lesson, students are asked to find and express a pattern using linking cubes; essentially, students will use these linking cubes to represent models in a variety of ways. They first use a table of values to discover the pattern (//for example, find the total number of blocks used for a given day, provided that one brick is added to the base and one is added to the height each day//), and then use that pattern to write an appropriate algebraic expression. Once students have a working expression, they will also learn how to use the algebraic expression to find subsequent terms in the pattern by substitution of values. For the final activity students will find the numerical value for the word "Teacher", given an algebraic expression or rule (i.e. a=1, b=2, c=3).
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The first example incorporates a couple of different ways of representing the same idea including a physical representation. The lesson uses manipulatives to make the ideas more concrete. We like the second example (assigning numerical values to words) because it incorporates aspects of literacy.
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Group 6 - Grade 7 - Unit 7 (Kelly, Christine, Bryan)
 Compares the values of fractions and decimals through group work, games and investigation. Encourages students inquiry and problem solving skills (i.e. students are to develop their own strategies and methods to solve a given problem). The lesson plan engages student interest and encourages cooperation through a fraction and decimal game.
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Group 8 - Grade 8 - Unit 3
Stefan, Inga, Tiffany

Lesson: Talking about Circles

There is a worksheet given with great visuals and direct instructions. Can be done in a group or individually.

There is a hands-on worksheet with clear and direct instructions.

There is an activity that can be done on geosketch pad…However, it doesn’t directly link you to it…

This whole lesson can easily be covered in one class.

Group 9 - Grade 8 - Unit 5 - Fractions (Katie, Sylvia, Diana)
This lesson introduces the concept of fractions by relating them to pieces of a pie or a pizza cut into equal sizes. It also shows the students how to write out models for different situations. We like this lesson plan because it has a good use of visuals with the different colours being used in the model. It is also really easy for students to relate to because it discusses cutting up pies and pizzas into slices (simple fractions), which is something they have seen many times before. If the class is grasping the concept well, the lesson can be extended to introduce pie graphs as an application of fractions.
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