Scholastic
Scholastic: Exploring Expressions and Equations
Teaching unit allows learners to develop key skills in expressions and equations while learning the value of these concepts through the lens of adventure sports.
Other
Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System: Using Expressions and Equations
This lesson provides learners with opportunities to practice writing equivalent equations and expressions for finding perimeter and patterns on a calendar. It also gives extension and remediation ideas as well as related instructional...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Express Yourself
This lesson plan walks students through using variables to translate between algebraic expressions and English phrases and sentences. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Working With Expressions and Equations Part 2
Sixth graders use substitution to find the values of equations and expressions they wrote using appropriate math symbols.
Other
Nearpod: Solving Linear Equations in One Variable
In this activity, 8th graders will learn how to solve linear equations in one variable including equations with one solution, no solution, and infinite solutions.
Other
Nearpod: Evaluating Expressions
In this lesson on evaluating expressions, students will learn how to evaluate expressions for given values using the order of operations.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Equivalent Expressions
This multi-segment lesson plan uses games and calculators to explore the concept of equivalent expressions. Students work together using inverse operations to isolate variables in algebraic equations. It also provides attachments for...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Equivalent Expressions
In this problem, we have to transform expressions using the distributive, commutative and associative properties to decide which expressions are equivalent. Common mistakes are addressed, such as not distributing the 2 correctly. Aligns...
Khan Academy
Khan: Lsn 12: Exponential Functions, Equations, Expressions and Radicals
Lesson 2 of 4 for Passport to Advanced Math. Students will build quadratic and exponential functions that model a given context; solve radical equations; work with rational expressions, including fractions with a variable in the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Teaching Guide: Intro to Js Resizing With Variable Expressions
A teaching guide for the Intro to JS lesson on Resizing with variable expressions.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.3: Ice Cream
This task illustrates the process of rearranging the terms of an expression to reveal different aspects about the quantity it represents. Aligns with A-SSE.B.3.
Student Achievement Partners
Illustrative Mathematics: Fishing Adventures [Pdf]
Students use a model to define variables, write expressions, create an inequality and then interpreting the results in this lesson.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Animal Populations
In this task, students have to interpret expressions involving two variables in the context of a real-world problem about animal populations. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1, A-SSE.A.1.a, and A-SSE.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Kitchen Floor Tiles
The purpose of this task about tiling a kitchen floor is to give students practice in reading, analyzing, and constructing algebraic expressions, attending to the relationship between the form of an expression and the context from which...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Quadrupling Leads to Halving
This question provides students with an opportunity to see expressions as constructed out of a sequence of operations: first taking the square root of a denominator, then dividing the result of that operation into the numerator. Aligns...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Distance to School
This task asks young scholars to find equivalent expressions by visualizing a familiar activity involving distance. The given solution shows some possible equivalent expressions, but there are many variations possible. Aligns with 6.EE.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Triangular Tables
This task provides a good opportunity for group work and class discussions where students generate and compare equivalent expressions. In class discussion, students should be asked to connect the terms of an expression with quantities...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.3.a and a sse.a.2: Cubic Identity
This task presents a challenging exercise in both algebraic manipulations and seeing structure in algebraic expressions. Aligns with A-SSE.B.3.a and A-SSE.A.2.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Algebra: Targeted Math Instruction
This Algebra lesson focuses on writing algebraic expressions to represent real-world problems, using the properties of numbers to simplify expressions, and evaluating equations by isolating the variable.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Miles to Kilometers
In this lesson, 7th graders write algebraic expressions and determine if they have the same answer.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Apr Egyptian Fractions Ii
In this task, young scholars will rewrite fractions as a sum of distinct unit fractions. To solve the problem, students will rewrite a simple rational expression and will need to study the arithmetic of these unit fractions with a...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Busy Day
This problem can be solved using simple arithmetical reasoning but is also naturally represented by a simple equation. Thus, it provides a good entry point for students into representing quantities in contexts with variables and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Color This Polynomial Simplified
This lesson walks students through the process of simplifying polynomials by combining like terms. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Increasing or Decreasing? Variation 1
This task asks students to examine an expression that has a denominator represented by the addition of two fractions. Each of those fractions has a denominator that is a variable. They are asked to analyze the structure of the expression...