How to create a Depth & Complexity Frame
1. Select Slide 2 or 3 for the frame format. Slide 3 allows
for diagram/drawing space. Choose your topic or
guiding question/idea. Put this in the center box where
it says “Topic.”
2. Choose four Depth & Complexity Icons {Slide 4} that
will work well for analysis of this topic, question or
idea. Copy and paste one in each of the four spaces
surrounding the center box {for Slide 3, use the corner
boxes}.
3. For Slide 2, create short prompts for each of those
icons and write those in the text boxes that say “Put
prompt here.” No prompts are used on the Slide 3
version.
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Topic
6.EE.A.2 – Read, write, and evaluate
expressions in which letters stand for numbers
7.EE.A.1 – Apply properties of operations as
strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand
linear expressions with rational coefficients
8.EE.C.7b– Solve linear equations with rational
number coefficients, including equations
whose solutions require expanding expressions
using the distributive property and collecting
like terms
Students will come to understand the importance of the
Order of Operations by rewriting algebraic expressions
using only parentheses to show the order to the reader
(for example: 4 - 2a𝑏2 = 4 – (2a(𝑏2 ))
Students will identify terms within
an Algebraic expressions and
evaluate those terms individually
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Students will recognize that PEMDAS is only one set of
rules that determine how expressions with variables and
multiple operations can be evaluated and will evaluate
expressions by identifying, simplifying, and then
combining like terms.
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