Lesson Plan: Changing the Subject of a Formula
This lesson plan includes the objectives and prerequisites of the lesson teaching students how to rearrange simple formulas using inverse operations.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- understand what it means for a variable to be the subject of a formula,
- rearrange a given formula to change its subject to a given variable.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing algebraic expressions,
- solving multistep equations by rearranging.
