1. AKA The Fragmentary Fast Food Frequency
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AKA The Fragmentary Fast Food Frequency
Teacher Supplies: the usual stuff (whiteboards, markers, whiteboard erasers), including Tickets Out The Door, one for each student, PLUS
calculators

3. What questions do you have?
What do you notice?
What questions do you have?

4. Question: What is the cost of this guy’s total order?

5. Write an estimate that is:
Too high
Write an estimate
that is:
Best Guess
Too low

6. What information do you need to answer the question?
Let the groups discuss this for a few moments before eliciting suggestions ...

7. Some useful information...
3 hamburgers = $12.00, 5 fries = $11.25, 2 chicken nuggets = $7.00, and 4 cokes = $7.00
Total = $37.25

8. So, what is the total cost of this guy’s order?
This guy’s order will cost $37.25!
Total = $ $ $ $7.00 = $37.25

9. Which method of solving was Faster?
Calculating in order
Grouping, then calculating
Grouping should be faster … hopefully, students will recognize this and can now see the value in practising the gathering of like terms, followed by the evaluation in the simplified form.

10. Let’s try another example or four...
A + B + B + C + B + A + A + C + A
= 4A + 3B + 2C
2D + E + E + 2F + D + 2E + F + 2D
= 5D + 4E + 3F
10Q Q Q + 3
= 17Q + 12
9 +3W W ‒ 7 ‒ W
= 4W + 4
= 4A + 3B + 2C
= 5D + 4E + 3F
= 17Q + 12
= 4W + 4

11. Let’s evaluate a couple of our previous expressions...
10Q Q Q + 3
= 17Q + 12
If Q = $14.80, what is the total cost of the order above?
The expression equals $263.60

12. Let’s evaluate a couple of our previous expressions...
A + B + B + C + B + A + A + C + A
= 4A + 3B + 2C
If A = $2.50, B = $1.75, and C = $0.65, what is the total cost of the order above?
The expression equals $16.55

13. Gathering Like Terms Gathering Like Terms
Consolidate to Salmon “Number Sense & Algebra” divider ...
Gathering Like Terms
Gathering Like Terms
Like terms have the same variable raised to the same exponent.
You gather like terms in the same way you do integers: combine all the same variables together.
Simplify the following expressions:
Ex. 1) 2x + 3y + x + 2y
= 3x + 5y
Ex. 2) 2a a
= 6a + 8
Ex. 3) 10p - 4r - 3p + 6r
= 7p + 2r

14. Check out this other crazy order!
With any additional time, have students create their own expressions to be simplified and evaluated - pairs can create, swap, simplify, and evaluate together.

15. Simplify the expression below:
A + D + A + D + N + A
What situation could the expression you’ve simplified possibly describe?
If the costs of each item are as listed below, what is the total cost of the order?
D = $5 N = $2 A = $3
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