Learning Target: Students will understand how to combine like terms

Task: Students will create a representation of an expression in Minecraft.

Lesson Setting: Students have been hired to architect an exposition center to display livestock from local farmers.

Materials: Students were given a task card to display work and turn in at the end of class.

Time: students were given about 30 minuets to complete this challenge few finished the build, and most finished the task card.

Setup: Students operated in their own world, i recommended blocks of grass.

What worked:

  1. formating the task card enabling students to write out each expression under each word set.
  2. using the printed images of farm animals on the card to represent terms in the written expression.  

What could have gone better

  1. More than 45 minutes to complete the task.