Lesson Plan Summarizing and Note Taking
Lesson Plan Summarizing and Note Taking
Content Standards: Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational.
Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational
numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a
decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number. (8.NS)
Literacy Standards: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development,
organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including
figurative and connotative meanings.
Differentiation (What will you do to meet the needs of students at these different levels?)
By going over the definitions of irrational, terminate, and periodic, this brings
English Language Arts into this lesson. This is teaching students how to use the
meaning of words to understand how these terms apply in math. Also
understanding that pi and e are examples of irrational numbers is helpful in a
science classroom. In science pi and e are also used.
Material Procedures/Strategies
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expo What does the word irrational mean? What are some synonyms?
markers
Students are to write down their response to this question
pencil independently.
eraser Anticipatory Set (focus question/s that will be used to get students thinking about the days lesson)
As students finish up, together as a class we will orally go over what the term
irrational means including synonyms. Next, I will ask students how they think this
relates to math. I will then write the term irrational numbers on the board and
see what students think this term would mean given that we just went over what
irrational means.
The most famous irrational number is the square root of 2, sometimes called
Pythagoras's constant. Legend has it that the Pythagorean philosopher Hippasus
used geometric methods to demonstrate the irrationality of square root of 2 while
at sea and, upon notifying his comrades of his great discovery, was immediately
thrown overboard by the fanatic Pythagoreans. Other examples include square root
2. To what general category of things does the item belong? The Number System
3. What characteristics separate the item from other things in the general pattern?
A decimal that goes on forever, AND does not have a repeating pattern
4. What are some types or classes of the thing being defined? pi, square root of 2,
square root of 3
Students will use the answers to these questions to fill in this summary frame:
Definition: A number that can not be expressed as a fraction p/q for any integers p and q.
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Closure
We will go over once again what irrational and rational numbers are.
Someone will be asked to verbally tell the class the difference between
the two.
Students will be told that their homework is an online game which will
be posted on Google Classroom.
https://www.mathgames.com/skill/8.9-identify-rational-and-irrational-
numbers