Lesson Planning

Numeracy and Algebra
Understand the action of expanding brackets (involving number only calculations, and then algebraic expressions), practice adding, subtracting and multiplying positive and negative integers.

Algebra and problem solving
Investigation: Blinking Brackets (including using brackets correctly, working with consecutive integers; adding, subtracting and multiplying positive and negative integers; substitution into expressions; using trial and improvement to find solutions, solving problems using logical reasoning; generalising).

Algebra and problem solving
Continuation of investigation: Blinking Brackets (including using brackets correctly; working with consecutive integers; adding, subtracting and multiplying positive and negative integers, substitution into expressions, using trial and improvement to find solutions, simplifying expressions, solving problems using logical reasoning; generalizing).