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 * An idea for Investigation Problem 4.3:** My school is 95% FRL and about 60% ELL, my school also has the Kagan coach in our building and therefore we use many Kagan strategies. My students sit in heterogeneous groups of four. Working with my student teacher we cam up with a lesson plan that really worked well.
 * 1) We started the lesson by going through equations (1), (2), and (3) as a review of what makes and equation linear, exponential, and quadratic.
 * 2) After doing this students individually went through part (A), determining which equations were linear, exponential, and quadratic. We allowed students about 5 or so minutes to do this then I randomly had students state how many equations they found that were in each category but they did not yet say which equation went where.
 * 3) Next, as a group they had to go back through the equations and agree upon where they all belonged.
 * 4) This lead us into a discussion about simplifying equations and writing them in expanded form to determine if they are equivalent.
 * 5) From here, each group was given one equation that was not written in simplest expanded form and they had to write it that way. Once each group completed this they wrote their equation in a simplified version of the same list of equations which had blanks for the equations that needed to be simplified: [[file:Problem 4 3 simplified equations with blanks.docx]].
 * 6) We finished our day with a discussion about how writing equations in simplest form helps to determine if equations are equivalent.