Essential Questions: How can functions be used and altered to model various situations that occur in life? How can we use representations to determine and explain the underlying patterns? How do tables, graphs, words and symbolic expressions represent the same thing? Is there a time when one form of representation is stronger than another? Lesson Plans and Seeds Lesson Plan B.4: Functions Lesson Seed B.4: Modeling Linear Relationships Download Seeds, Plans, and Resources (zip) Unit Overview Content Emphasis By Clusters in Grade 8 Progressions from Common Core State Standards in Mathematics Send Feedback to MSDE’s Mathematics Team
Lesson Plan B.4: Functions
Lesson Seed B.4: Modeling Linear Relationships
Unit Overview
Content Emphasis By Clusters in Grade 8
Progressions from Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
Send Feedback to MSDE’s Mathematics Team
Lesson seeds are ideas that can be used to build a lesson aligned to the CCSS. Lesson seeds are not meant to be all-inclusive, nor are they substitutes for instruction. When developing lessons from these seeds, teachers must consider the needs of all learners. It is also important to build checkpoints into the lessons where appropriate formative assessment will inform a teachers instructional pacing and delivery.
According to the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), some clusters require greater emphasis than others. The table below shows PARCC’s relative emphasis for each cluster. Prioritization does not imply neglect or exclusion of material. Clear priorities are intended to ensure that the relative importance of content is properly attended to. Note that the prioritization is in terms of cluster headings.
The Number System
Expressions and Equations
Functions
Geometry
Statistics and Probability
