This document summarizes the process of unpacking a Grade Level Expectation (GLE) about complex numbers for math. Unpacking involves organizing, simplifying, and preparing the GLE to aid teacher and student understanding. It breaks down the GLE into its essential components like the strand, key vocabulary, and operations covered. The unpacked GLE is then restated into student-friendly "I can" statements to clarify what students should know and be able to do.

1. UNPACKING THE GLES
PROJECT
TINASHE BLANCHET, PDRT
DATE CLIENT
MARCH 30, 2010 JOHN EHRET HIGH SCHOOL

2. Food for Thought:
What is the purpose
of unpacking?

3. purpose of unpacking
organize
simplify
prepare

4. Why?
Unpacking the Grade Level
Expectations is a necessary
process for teacher and
student understanding

5. Math GLE #1,
Grades 11-12

6. Read, write, and perform
basic operations on
complex numbers (N-1-H)
(N-5-H)

8. simple, right?

9. WRONG!

10. Complex #s: a+bi, where a
and b are REAL numbers

11. a+bi when b=0
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13. Read, write, and perform
basic operations on
complex numbers (N-1-H)
(N-5-H)

14. Read, write, simplify, add,
subtract, multiply and
divide imaginary numbers,
integers, rational numbers
and irrational numbers
(N-1-H) (N-5-H)

15. GLEs: action packed!
Strand
KRSP
Critical Vocabulary
Need to know’s
Do’s

16. Student
Friendly
GLES
“I can...” statements

17. Read, write, and perform
basic operations on
complex numbers (N-1-H)
(N-5-H)

18. Read, write, simplify, add,
subtract, multiply and
divide imaginary numbers,
integers, rational numbers
and irrational numbers
(N-1-H) (N-5-H)

19. I can add, subtract,
multiply and divide real
(a), imaginary (bi), and
complex (a+bi) numbers

20. your turn!
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