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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...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse the Physics Professor
In this task, students are asked to study the structure of an algebraic expression, draw conclusions, and explain their thinking. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Mixing Fertilizer
A landscaping company prepares two mixtures of fertilizer. In this task, students investigate what happens to the value of an expression when a quantity is changed. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Delivery Trucks
This task asks students to analyze four expressions to determine what each represents in terms of the problem's context, which is about two trucks delivering different amounts of sand in different numbers of trips. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Mixing Candies
This task about a box of chocolates has students use the given equations to answer questions about weight and price, as well as interpret the expressions in the equations. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.a.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Radius of a Cylinder
Given the height and volume of a certain cylinder, Jill uses the volume formula to compute its radius. If a second cylinder has the same volume as the first, but is 100 times taller, what is its radius? Aligns with A-SSE.A.1.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Throwing Horseshoes
This task about the height of a horseshoe in flight requires students to identify expressions as sums or products and interpret each summand or factor. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.4: Rewriting Equations
The goal of this task is to manipulate equations in order to solve for a specified variable. Aligns with HSA-CED.A.4.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b: Taxes and Sales
This task is not about computing the final price of the shirt but about using the structure in the computation to make a general argument. Aligns with A-SSE.B.
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Alex: The Pattern of Graphing Linear Equations
The middle schoolers will extend the knowledge of algebraic expressions from geometric representations and ultimately graph linear equations with understanding. The students will also develop a better understanding of algebraic...
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Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Rectangle Perimeter 1
This tasks gives a verbal description for computing the perimeter of a rectangle and asks the students to find an expression for this perimeter. They then have to use the expression to evaluate the perimeter for specific values of the...
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Toilet Roll
Picture a roll of toilet paper; assume that the paper in the roll is very tightly rolled. Assuming that the paper in the roll is very thin, find a relationship between the thickness of the paper, the inner and outer radii of the roll,...