Middle Grades Math: What's Your Story

Objectives

• Students will create realistic word problems when given the equation that models a situation.

Vocabulary

• model
• equation
• graph
• expression
• independent variable
• dependent variable
• function
• variable
• reverse engineering

About the Lesson

This lesson involves reverse engineering of word problems.
As a result, students will:

• Write an equation from a traditional word problem.
• Explore a given equation numerically and graphically.
• Create a word problem that is modeled by the given equation.