LESSON+PLAN

=**PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM**= __**Analyze your Learners**__ MA.7.A.3.2- The studdent will perform exponential operations with rational bases and whole number exponents including solving problems. MA.7.A.3.3- Formulate and use different strategies to solve one-step and two-step linear equations, including equations with rational coefficients.
 * **7th grade students**
 * MA.7.A.3.1- The student will use and justify the rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers.**


 * __State your Objectives__**


 * **Given the lengths of two sides of a right triangle, the student will be able to calculate the unknown side eight out of ten times.**
 * **From memory, the student will be able to distinguish the sides of a right triangle ninety percent of the time.**
 * __Select Media and Materials__**
 * **Whiteboard**
 * **Projector**
 * **Projector Screen**
 * **Calculators**
 * **Computers**
 * **Hand-outs for in class**

__**Required Learner Participation**__ __**Evaluate and Revise**__
 * __Utilize Media and Materials__**
 * **Take roll**
 * **Have hand-outs ready to be distributed**
 * **Have answer key available**
 * **Make sure there are enough calculators for students**
 * **Arrange desks so that all students can see projector**
 * **Get powerpoint ready on computer**
 * **Pull down projector screen**
 * **Briefly explain that we are going to be discussing the Pythagorean Theorem**
 * **Distribute hand-outs**
 * **Start powerpoint slide show, explain each slide in detail**
 * **Explain radicals and how to write numbers in radical form on white board**
 * **Explain how to use square root key on calculator**
 * **Explain to students that you are going to do number one and two on board, but they should also do them at their desks**
 * **Write Pythagorean Theorem on whiteboard, have volunteers identify different sides of right triangle**
 * **Have volunteers come to board and do rest of problems off of hand-out**
 * **Try to involve everyone at least once**
 * **What part did not seem to work**