These worksheets are designed to help students start being able to write expressions based on word problems and understand how expressions arise from situations.

Students will work with problems without a variable and then use their own math to decide what mathematical expressions are correct. Students also will look at how the language in the problem might give a hint as to the mathematical operations they should be using.

There are two worksheets included (both Google Docs). The first is to get students started and the second has them working on some more complex expressions.