Teaching Tennessee: 7th Grade Math Lesson 1 — Transcript
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- 0:00[Music]
- 0:10hello welcome to Tennessee's at home
- 0:12learning series for math today's lesson
- 0:15is for all of our seventh graders out
- 0:16there though all children are welcome to
- 0:18tune in this lesson is the first in our
- 0:21series my name is Kayla Anderson and I'm
- 0:24an eighth grade teacher in Tennessee
- 0:25Schools I'm so excited to be your
- 0:27teacher for this lesson welcome to my
- 0:29virtual classroom today we will be
- 0:31learning about creating and evaluating
- 0:33expressions to analyze real-world
- 0:35situations in mathematics before we get
- 0:38started to participate fully in our
- 0:40lesson today you will need paper pencil
- 0:44and a surface to write on okay let's
- 0:49begin today we will be reviewing
- 0:52expressions and how they can help us in
- 0:55the real world to reach a solution
- 0:57recall the difference between
- 1:00expressions and equations so I'm gonna
- 1:03write some vocabulary words and their
- 1:05definitions on the board it may be a
- 1:07good idea for you to go ahead and jot
- 1:09down those words in their definition
- 1:10somewhere on your paper so that you have
- 1:13them to refer back to as the lesson
- 1:15progresses because they will not be on
- 1:17the board the entire time so again we're
- 1:20going to be recalling the difference
- 1:22between expressions and equations so
- 1:25your first vocabulary word is
- 1:28expressions
- 1:35on your second vocabulary word is
- 1:38equations so recall that the main
- 1:45difference between an expression and an
- 1:47equation is that expressions do not have
- 1:50an equal sign
- 1:51whereas equations do have an equal sign
- 2:06and I think that's the equ a in the word
- 2:12equations and the equ a in the word e
- 2:17all can help you to remember that
- 2:19equations do have an equal sign so to
- 2:22pause for just a second so that you can
- 2:23write all definitions down if you'd like
- 2:25to
- 2:34to accompany those oh cab you Larry
- 2:37words and the definition that we have
- 2:38there let's also write some examples so
- 2:41because an expression does not have an
- 2:42equal sign something like 3 X or 4 y
- 2:48plus 6 those are two examples of
- 2:52expressions because they do not have
- 2:54equal signs examples of equations would
- 2:57be taking these expressions and having
- 3:01an equal sign and something on the other
- 3:02side so 3x equals 7 or 4y plus 6 equals
- 3:103y plus 2 these two are equations
- 3:14because they do have equal signs whereas
- 3:17this one is an expression because it
- 3:18does not have an equal sign so I'll
- 3:20pause for a second in case you'd like to
- 3:22write those down
- 3:34so the third vocabulary word that we're
- 3:36going to add is variable and remember
- 3:43that a variable is just a placeholder
- 3:45for an unknown value
- 4:04typically we use a letter to represent a
- 4:08variable so in the expressions that we
- 4:10have here X is the variable and Y is the
- 4:14variable they're letters that represent
- 4:16an unknown value in our equations again
- 4:19x and y are the variables they're
- 4:23they're placeholders for values that we
- 4:26don't know if you'd like to raise some
- 4:28additional examples of variables out to
- 4:30the side here you could use X you can
- 4:33use Y you could use and really any
- 4:36number aramis cute excuse me any letter
- 4:38it's going to be a placeholder for that
- 4:40unknown value so you want to jot any of
- 4:42them down go ahead and do that
- 4:50okay so have you ever wondered how you
- 4:53could save money and make sure you have
- 4:55enough minutes and text to talk to your
- 4:57friends writing expressions to model
- 5:00real world problems can be very powerful
- 5:02and helpful in making decisions let's
- 5:05take a look at an example John's father
- 5:07asked him to compare several different
- 5:09cell phone plans and identify which plan
- 5:11will be the least expensive for the
- 5:13family
- 5:14each phone company charges a monthly fee
- 5:16but this speed doesn't cover any
- 5:19services like phone lines texting or
- 5:22internet access we're going to use the
- 5:24information given in this table to
- 5:26answer some questions it's go ahead and
- 5:31take a look at the table you'll notice
- 5:33that we have three different companies
- 5:34to choose from and that we are
- 5:37discussing monthly fee price per phone
- 5:40line price per line for unlimited
- 5:42texting and price per line for internet
- 5:45access we're going to use expressions to
- 5:47save money while still getting the best
- 5:49phone plate all the members of the
- 5:52family may not want identical plans
- 5:54therefore we're going to let X represent
- 5:56the price per phone line y is going to
- 6:00represent the price per line for
- 6:02unlimited texting and these going to
- 6:05represent the price per line for
- 6:07internet access let's take a look at
- 6:14company a company a charges $70 at the
- 6:18monthly fee for the 1500 shared minutes
- 6:22company a also charges $20 per phone
- 6:26line $15 per line for unlimited texting
- 6:30and 15 dollars per line for internet
- 6:33access your job is to write an
- 6:36expression using these variables x y and
- 6:40z to represent what company a will
- 6:44charge again it's an expression not an
- 6:47equation and remember from our
- 6:48definitions that equations have equal
- 6:50signs but expressions do not so when you
- 6:53write your expression for Company A
- 6:54using the variable
- 6:55X Y & Z you're not going to have an
- 6:58equal sign so I'm going to pause and
- 7:00give you some time to write down an
- 7:01expression to represent what company a
- 7:03will charge
- 7:42okay so let's take a look at what you
- 7:44were able to come up with for company a
- 7:46so to represent company a's to write an
- 7:49expression for company a i am going to
- 7:51have a seventy dollar fee for the 1500
- 7:56chair minutes plus $20 for every line
- 8:02for every phone line which I'm going to
- 8:04use X to represent plus 15 dollars per
- 8:10line for unlimited texting or using the
- 8:12variable Y for that plus 15 dollars per
- 8:16line for internet access and we've used
- 8:19Z so your expression should be seventy
- 8:23plus 20 X plus 15 y plus 15 Z does yours
- 8:29match that good remember that your terms
- 8:34may be in a different order because
- 8:36addition is commutative which means it
- 8:38doesn't matter what order we add these
- 8:40things in as long as we have the same
- 8:42terms we're going to get the same answer
- 8:45so let's analyze this really quickly
- 8:47just to make sure we understand what
- 8:48these pieces represent again $70 is just
- 8:51that fee that you're going to pay for
- 8:53the 1500 minutes that you're sharing $20
- 8:57is the price for every line and we're
- 8:59using the variable X to represent that
- 9:03$15 is the price per line for unlimited
- 9:06texting which we're using the variable Y
- 9:08to represent and $15 is the price per
- 9:11line for internet access which we're
- 9:12using the variable Z to represent okay
- 9:17so now we're going to do that same thing
- 9:18again but this time we're going to write
- 9:21an expression for Company B so if we
- 9:22take a look at the chart
- 9:24Company B charges $90 for that 1500
- 9:27shared minutes
- 9:28Company B charges $15 per phone line ten
- 9:32dollars per line for unlimited texting
- 9:35and $20 per line for internet access so
- 9:39your job this time is to again write an
- 9:42expression which won't have an equal
- 9:43sign using variables XY and Z and to
- 9:47represent Company B if you need to you
- 9:50can look back at the expression that we
- 9:51wrote for company a to help you out go
- 9:53ahead and try that now
- 10:32all right let's take a look at what you
- 10:34did for Company B so the monthly fee for
- 10:40Company B is $90 plus $15 per phone line
- 10:49plus $10 for unlimited texting plus $20
- 10:58per line for internet access so for
- 11:02Company B you should have 90 plus 15 X
- 11:05plus 10y plus 20 Z okay and remember
- 11:11keep in mind that this is commutative
- 11:12which means if yours is in a different
- 11:14order it's okay as long as you have
- 11:15those same terms okay so we have one
- 11:22last one to do and this time we need to
- 11:25write an expression to represent Company
- 11:27C so we take a look at the chart company
- 11:29C charges us $200 for those 1500 shared
- 11:33minutes Company C also charges us $10
- 11:36per phone line however company sees a
- 11:39little bit different because the price
- 11:41per line for unlimited texting and the
- 11:44price per line for internet access are
- 11:45both included in the monthly fee so your
- 11:49job again is to write an expression for
- 11:52Company C using the variables XY and Z
- 11:55in order to represent what they're gonna
- 11:57charge us now be careful with this one
- 11:58it's a little bit trickier since these
- 12:01two since these two options are included
- 12:03in the monthly fee I'm going to pause
- 12:05and let you go ahead and write an
- 12:06expression for Company C
- 12:41all right let's take a look at what you
- 12:43were able to come up with for company C
- 12:44so for company C we do have a two
- 12:47hundred dollar monthly fee for those
- 12:481500 share minutes so two hundred plus
- 12:53we're also gonna pay ten dollars per
- 12:56film on but this time the line for a
- 13:01limited texting the price for unlimited
- 13:02texting and the price for internet
- 13:03access are both already included in that
- 13:05monthly fee so we're not going to have a
- 13:08Y or Z variable in this one because
- 13:11they're already included so it shouldn't
- 13:13you should have two hundred plus 10x
- 13:16okay so now that we have all of our
- 13:19expressions we're going to use them in
- 13:20order to analyze the different scenarios
- 13:23so let's see which plan is best for our
- 13:27certain same scenario so we're going to
- 13:29have let me jot this don't worry we're
- 13:32going to have for people who want phone
- 13:35lines so for phones we're going to have
- 13:43for people who want unlimited texting so
- 13:46for for texting and we're going to have
- 13:52two people who want internet lines and
- 13:59we're gonna use the three expressions
- 14:00that we just wrote in order to figure
- 14:02out which one of these companies is
- 14:04going to be the best one to go with for
- 14:07our specific scenario so I'm gonna help
- 14:10you out with company and you just start
- 14:12out with so let's go back to our
- 14:14expression for company a again it's an
- 14:17expression got n equations and there's
- 14:18no equal sign so this section is solved
- 14:21so for company a we're gonna have a
- 14:25seventy dollar fee for the 1500 shared
- 14:29minutes plus 20 dollars for every phone
- 14:33line and we want we're gonna have four
- 14:36people that want phone lines plus
- 14:39fifteen dollars for everyone with a
- 14:43limited texting we also have to work on
- 14:45those plus
- 14:48fifteen dollars for every line with
- 14:51internet and we're going to have two of
- 14:53those so before we move on with the math
- 14:56let's make sure you understand where
- 14:57these numbers came from seventy dollars
- 14:59for that one thousand five hundred
- 15:01cheered minutes twenty dollars per phone
- 15:04line we have four of them
- 15:05fifteen dollars per line for a limited
- 15:08texting we have four of those as well
- 15:10fifteen dollars for everyone with
- 15:12internet access and we have two of those
- 15:14so now that we've substituted some
- 15:17values for our variables we're going to
- 15:19go ahead and do the math so we've got 70
- 15:22plus 20 times 4 which is 80 plus 15
- 15:28times 4 which is 60 plus 15 times 2
- 15:33which is 30
- 15:44and then adding all of those together we
- 15:47figure out that company a is going to
- 15:49charge us two hundred and forty dollars
- 15:52so for this specific scenario using
- 15:55Company A we would have to pay two
- 15:56hundred and forty dollars okay now what
- 15:59I'd like for you to do is using this
- 16:01same scenario figure out what it's going
- 16:03to cost us to four to use Company B so
- 16:07you can look back what we did for
- 16:08company a if you need some help gonna
- 16:10pause now while you try out company
- 16:56alright let's go ahead and see what you
- 16:57write look I'm up with four Avenue B so
- 17:02for Company B we know that section is we
- 17:06know that we have the $90 that we're
- 17:09going to have to pay for the 1500
- 17:11minutes plus 15 X X in this case
- 17:16represented the price per phone line and
- 17:18we do want four phone lines so we're
- 17:20going to substitute for in place of that
- 17:22X plus $10 for every line of unlimited
- 17:28texting which was y and we do have four
- 17:32of those who are on place Y with 4 and
- 17:34then plus $20 for every line with
- 17:37internet access and we did want two of
- 17:40those so we're going to replace Z with
- 17:43two so $90 for them 1500 chaired minutes
- 17:4815 dollars for every line we have four
- 17:51lines $10 for every line with a limited
- 17:54texting we have four lines with texting
- 17:56and then 20 dollars for every line with
- 18:00internet access and we do have two of
- 18:01those hey so when we do the math we're
- 18:07gonna have 90 plus 15 times 4 which is
- 18:1016 plus 10 times 4 which is 40 plus 20
- 18:17times 2 which is also
- 18:27okay and so adding all those together we
- 18:30do come up with two hundred and thirty
- 18:33dollars so Company B would charge us two
- 18:36hundred and thirty dollars in this
- 18:37scenario so the last thing to do now is
- 18:40to figure out for this particular
- 18:43scenario
- 18:43what is Company C in a charge us I'm
- 18:45going to pause while you figure that out
- 19:16okay so let's check your work for
- 19:18company seat so company see we have two
- 19:22hundred plus ten X so we have two
- 19:25hundred dollars for those 1500 minutes
- 19:28that we're sharing plus ten dollars for
- 19:31every line which was X we know that we
- 19:33want for phone lines so we're gonna
- 19:35substitute for in place of X when we're
- 19:39talking $200 for the 1500 shared minutes
- 19:42ten dollars for every line we do have
- 19:45four lines so we do the math here 200
- 19:51plus 10 times 4 which is 4200 plus 40
- 19:57gives us 240 dollars okay so now we've
- 20:05done the math we figured out what all
- 20:07three of these companies will charge us
- 20:08for this scenario which company should
- 20:10we choose and why if you think somebody
- 20:16B you are correct company a and Company
- 20:19C are both gonna cost two hundred and
- 20:21forty dollars all Company B only costs
- 20:24two hundred and thirty dollars so we're
- 20:25gonna save $10 by choosing Company B
- 20:28good work so now we're going to have now
- 20:36we're gonna have another scenario for
- 20:38you to practice with all right so you
- 20:46didn't though same expression that we
- 20:49used before we have a different scenario
- 20:50this time so this time we are going to
- 20:55have four people that want fauxmance so
- 20:58for four months we're gonna have four
- 21:05people that one texting and then
- 21:12everybody is also going to want internet
- 21:13so how many phones are with Internet of
- 21:15unity yep we need four of them so for
- 21:19internet so for this scenario for five
- 21:22months for texting for internet okay
- 21:27so I'm gonna worry about company a and
- 21:31you work along with me and then I'll
- 21:32give you a chance to work out Company B
- 21:34and Company C to figure out which one of
- 21:36these works better so we're using those
- 21:39same expressions that we came up with
- 21:41for our scenario before so for company a
- 21:44that was 70 plus 20 X plus 15 y plus 15
- 21:57Z
- 21:58okay so we're using that same expression
- 22:01remember it's an expression so it
- 22:02doesn't have an equal sign
- 22:04this time we want for plug months we
- 22:07have this $70 fee for the 1500 minutes
- 22:13$20 for every line and we have four
- 22:15lines plus fifteen dollars for unlimited
- 22:19texting we have four people that want in
- 22:21the minute texting plus fifteen dollars
- 22:24for everyone that wants internet and we
- 22:26have four people that want internet
- 22:28anapana so you can jot that down okay
- 22:35so doing the math here we come up with
- 22:3770 plus 80 plus 60 plus 60 when we add
- 22:44those together we do come up with a
- 22:48second double check myself when we come
- 22:50up with when we add those together we do
- 22:52come up with 270 dollars so for four
- 22:56lines for texting for Internet company a
- 22:59is gonna charge us two hundred and
- 23:00seventy dollars so now what I'm going to
- 23:02do is pause so that you can work out
- 23:04what Company B is going to charge for
- 23:06this situation if you need some help
- 23:08look back at what we did for company a
- 23:09while you're working I'm going to go
- 23:11ahead and write the expression up here
- 23:12so that we're ready to go
- 23:44okay so just like we did with company a
- 23:46we have the $90 fee plus $15 per line
- 23:51move four lines plus $10 per line for
- 23:55texting we have four people to love
- 23:57texting and $20 per line for Internet
- 24:00and we have four people that one
- 24:02internet so the back 90 plus 60 plus 40
- 24:09plus 80 and that does give us two
- 24:19hundred and seventy dollars so Company B
- 24:22is also gonna cost two hundred and
- 24:24seventy dollars last one here is Company
- 24:26C you need to figure out from this
- 24:28situation what company C is gonna charge
- 24:30us I will pause while you figure that
- 24:32out while you're working I'll go ahead
- 24:33and write the expression
- 24:50so we are going to do 200 plus 10 X in
- 24:53this case so 200 for the 1500 minutes
- 24:58plus $10 for every line do you have four
- 25:00lines doing the math that gives us 200
- 25:04plus 40 which gives us 240 dollars okay
- 25:14hope you got that one all right so now
- 25:19that we've figured out what each of the
- 25:21three companies is going to charge us
- 25:23for four phone lines before texting and
- 25:25for Internet which company would you
- 25:27choose for this situation and why you're
- 25:32right you should choose company C you
- 25:35can save $30 by choosing company C in
- 25:38this case good work everybody
- 25:41so I hope that you were able to see how
- 25:43expressions assist us to make good
- 25:45choices in the real world these are
- 25:47skills that you will continue to use
- 25:48throughout your life today we were
- 25:51reviewed creating and evaluating
- 25:53expressions to analyze real world
- 25:56situations we review that the major
- 25:58difference between an expression and an
- 26:00equation is that equations have equal
- 26:02signs while expressions do not we also
- 26:05reviewed that a variable is just a
- 26:07placeholder for an unknown value even
- 26:08that most of the time traditionally we
- 26:11use letters for variables I hope you're
- 26:14seeing some connections to equal groups
- 26:16and repeated addition in multiplication
- 26:18you really did a good job today after
- 26:20the video you will have some problems to
- 26:22practice on your own good luck and do
- 26:25your best
- 26:26[Music]
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