Title, Grade, Subject Area, and Time Required

-Evaluating Expressions with Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces, 5th grade Gifted and
Talent math, one one-and-a-half grouping session.
Introduction/Overview
-This lesson and lesson plan will be used to teach the students how to solve expressions
with parentheses, brackets, and expressions in them. Through a well-blended mixture of
visual, audio, and kinesthetic techniques, not only will this lesson plan will teach the
students how solve these expressions, but it will also help them differentiate between
expressions that contain parentheses, expressions that contain brackets, and expressions
that contain braces. Verbal assessments will constantly be being conducted throughout the
entire lesson to make sure the kids are not only learning, but that they are also
remembering what they are learning.

Learning outcomes
-After the completion of this lesson, the students will be able to identify and solve
expressions on tests and homework with 85 percent accuracy.
Curriculum alignment
-This lesson falls within common core standards because not only will it help the students
write and interpret numerical expression, but it will also help them analyze patterns and
relationships.
-This lesson plan will also require students to perform operations with multi-digit whole
numbers and with decimals to hundredths, and it will also deal with the order of
operations and fractions, both of which are standards of the Nevada Department of
Education.
Materials Needed
-The students will need to bring three sharpened pencils and a notebook full of paper to
class each day, just encase their handheld electronic devices break down, but most of
their work will be done on those electronic devices. The teacher will need a smart board,
a round table with six chairs, and the necessary utensils for the teacher to write on the
board with. The table and chairs must be set up so all five kids are able to see the smart
board and actively participate.
Technology
-The necessary technologies to complete this lesson will be one smart board, five
handheld electronic devices, a strong wireless internet connection, and printers so the
students can print out there work and use it to study.
Pre-activities
-Before the lesson, the teacher will give the students a quick refresher on basic addition,
subtraction, division, multiplication, place value, and fraction rules. This is to ensure that
the students remember the foundations of math before they begin to learn anything new.
Activities
-The first activity would be the pre-activity. One by one I would ask the students
questions that pertained to the basic math skills mentioned earlier. If they were able to
demonstrate proficiency in all areas, we would move on. If they were having trouble, I would
take the time to fully explain any concepts they were having trouble with before we moved on to
the introduction.
-The introduction would consist of slow and methodical explanations of parentheses,
brackets, braces, and their functions. During the explanation, the smart board would have on it
the concept map, teaching the students how to recognize the parentheses, brackets, and braces.
The students would then be shown a wide variety of expressions containing parentheses,
brackets, and braces and then be asked to solve them.
Assessment
-After the students were give a variety of random equations to solve, their assessment
phase would begin. To determine if the students had met the goal of the lesson plan, they
would be verbally told an equation. They would have to correctly write that equation
down and then solve it, all without help from anyone else. Students that passed would be
given positive feedback, and kids that had some trouble at first would be retaught. Then,
after they were all proficient in the processes of evaluating expressions with parentheses,
brackets, and braces, they would be dismissed back to their class.
Critical Vocabulary
-Expression: Mathematical phrases that having numbers separated by operations.
Evaluate: To completely solve an equation or expression.
Parentheses: Curved vertical lines that are used to group mathematical expressions
together.
Brackets: Squared vertical lines that are used to group mathematical expressions together.
Braces: Curly vertical lines that are used to group mathematical expressions together.