PLAYLIST School, grade, teacher: High Tech High, 8 th grade, Bryan Harms

1. PLAYLIST School, grade, teacher: High Tech High, 8thgrade, Bryan Harms Approach: Student-driven Self-pacing: all students work through these goals in this exact order, but students could go at their own pace within the first semester. Other details: At all times he had about 50% of his students working on KA while he worked with the other 50%. He used data daily to figure out which students to focus on and in which topics FIRST SEMESTER GOALS FUNDAMENTALS GOALS Goal Name:  FractionsAdding FractionsSubtracting FractionsMultiplying FractionsDividing FractionsGoal Name: Ratios and Proportions Writing ProportionsProportions 1Goal Name: PercentsConverting Fractions to decimals Converting Decimals to percentsGoal Name: Order of Operations and Combining Like Terms Combining Like Terms Order of operationsDistributive PropertyCombining like terms with the distributive property ALGEBRA GOALS Goal Name: Linear Equations 1Video: Variables and ExpressionsEvaluating Expressions in one variableVideo: Simple EquationsWriting expressionsVideo: Evaluating Expressions with two variablesEvaluating Expressions in 2 variablesGoal Name: Linear Equations 2One step equation intuitionWriting Expressions 2Video: One Step EquationsOne step equationsOne step equations with MultiplicationGoal Name: Advanced ProportionsExpressing Ratios as FractionsRatio Word ProblemsProportions 1UnitsGoal Name: Linear Equations 3Video: What is a variable?Video: Why aren’t we using the multiplication signWriting Expressions 2Video: Why do we do the same thing to both sides: simple equationsVideo: Representing a relationship with a simple equations Goal Name:Linear Equations 4One Step Equation IntuitionOne Step EquationsOne-Step Equations with MultiplicationWhy do we do the same thing to both sides: multi-step equations2-step EquationsLinear Equation word problemsMulti-Step EquationsGoal Name: Linear Equations 5Video: Variables on both sidesExercise: Linear equation word problemsVideo: Challenge Example: Sum of integersVideo: Equations with Variables on Both SidesVideo: Solving Equations 2Exercise: Equations with variables on both sidesEquation Special Cases