Working with Linear Equations

Strand: Patterns and Relations (Variables and Equations)
Outcome: 3

Step 2: Determine Evidence of Student Learning

Guiding Questions

What evidence will I look for to know that learning has occurred?
What should students demonstrate to show their understanding of the mathematical concepts, skills and Big Ideas?

Using Achievement Indicators

As you begin planning lessons and learning activities, keep in mind ongoing ways to monitor and assess student learning. One starting point for this planning is to consider the achievement indicators listed in the Mathematics Kindergarten to Grade 9 Program of Studies with Achievement Indicators. You may also generate your own indicators and use them to guide your observation of the students.

The following indicators may be used to determine whether or not students have met this specific outcome. Can students:

model the solution of a given linear equation, using concrete or pictorial representations, and record the process?
verify, by substitution, whether a given rational number is a solution to a given linear equation?
solve a given linear equation symbolically?
identify and correct an error in a given incorrect solution of a linear equation?
represent a given problem, using a linear equation?
solve a given problem, using a linear equation, and record the process?

Sample behaviours to look for related to these indicators are suggested for some of the activities listed in Step 3, Section C: Choosing Learning Activities.