Description
Teacher directions:
1. Use this project to introduce students to, or help students gain mastery in, writing expressions, finding equivalent expressions, and solving for equivalent expressions.
2. Use the “Example” rows to demonstrate one possible way to write and evaluate expressions. Display the project on the board (or just write out the column titles on your chalkboard or whiteboard!) and complete an example with them. Students can then attempt to complete the others.
3. Increase rigor by having students create a real-world situation that uses one of their expressions.
Personal note: After I added the real-world situation sections, I was able to see some of those hard-to-reach students in my classes able to explain for the first time what a variable in their equation represents, and what situation an expression could actually represent. This was really cool to see!
1. Use this project to introduce students to, or help students gain mastery in, writing expressions, finding equivalent expressions, and solving for equivalent expressions.
2. Use the “Example” rows to demonstrate one possible way to write and evaluate expressions. Display the project on the board (or just write out the column titles on your chalkboard or whiteboard!) and complete an example with them. Students can then attempt to complete the others.
3. Increase rigor by having students create a real-world situation that uses one of their expressions.
Personal note: After I added the real-world situation sections, I was able to see some of those hard-to-reach students in my classes able to explain for the first time what a variable in their equation represents, and what situation an expression could actually represent. This was really cool to see!
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Highlights
Grades
6th
Standards
CCSS6.EE.A.2a
CCSS6.EE.A.2c
CCSS6.EE.A.4
Tags
Pages
12
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
45 minutes
Description
Teacher directions:
1. Use this project to introduce students to, or help students gain mastery in, writing expressions, finding equivalent expressions, and solving for equivalent expressions.
2. Use the “Example” rows to demonstrate one possible way to write and evaluate expressions. Display the project on the board (or just write out the column titles on your chalkboard or whiteboard!) and complete an example with them. Students can then attempt to complete the others.
3. Increase rigor by having students create a real-world situation that uses one of their expressions.
Personal note: After I added the real-world situation sections, I was able to see some of those hard-to-reach students in my classes able to explain for the first time what a variable in their equation represents, and what situation an expression could actually represent. This was really cool to see!
1. Use this project to introduce students to, or help students gain mastery in, writing expressions, finding equivalent expressions, and solving for equivalent expressions.
2. Use the “Example” rows to demonstrate one possible way to write and evaluate expressions. Display the project on the board (or just write out the column titles on your chalkboard or whiteboard!) and complete an example with them. Students can then attempt to complete the others.
3. Increase rigor by having students create a real-world situation that uses one of their expressions.
Personal note: After I added the real-world situation sections, I was able to see some of those hard-to-reach students in my classes able to explain for the first time what a variable in their equation represents, and what situation an expression could actually represent. This was really cool to see!
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Used to put into students notebook for review of notes.
Great Resource
thank you
Very simple yet easy project for my 6th graders!
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Standards
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CCSS6.EE.A.2a
Write expressions that record operations with numbers and with letters standing for numbers. For example, express the calculation “Subtract 𝘺 from 5” as 5 - 𝘺.
CCSS6.EE.A.2c
Evaluate expressions at specific values of their variables. Include expressions that arise from formulas used in real-world problems. Perform arithmetic operations, including those involving whole-number exponents, in the conventional order when there are no parentheses to specify a particular order (Order of Operations). For example, use the formulas V = s³ and A = 6 s² to find the volume and surface area of a cube with sides of length s = 1/2.
CCSS6.EE.A.4
Identify when two expressions are equivalent (i.e., when the two expressions name the same number regardless of which value is substituted into them). For example, the expressions 𝘺 + 𝘺 + 𝘺 and 3𝘺 are equivalent because they name the same number regardless of which number 𝘺 stands for.
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