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Better Lesson: Working With Expressions and Equations Part 2

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders use substitution to find the values of equations and expressions they wrote using appropriate math symbols.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Variables and Algebraic Expressions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan has middle schoolers identify a variable, term, constant, coefficient, and an algebraic expression. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extention as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
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Other

Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System: Using Expressions and Equations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Other

Nearpod: Solving Linear Equations in One Variable

For Teachers 8th Standards
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.
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Other

Nearpod: Evaluating Expressions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson on evaluating expressions, students will learn how to evaluate expressions for given values using the order of operations.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Equivalent Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Equivalent Expressions

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 12: Exponential Functions, Equations, Expressions and Radicals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Express Yourself

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Teaching Guide: Intro to Js Resizing With Variable Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A teaching guide for the Intro to JS lesson on Resizing with variable expressions.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Distance to School

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
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.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Triangular Tables

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.3.a and a sse.a.2: Cubic Identity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.3: Ice Cream

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Miles to Kilometers

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson, 7th graders write algebraic expressions and determine if they have the same answer.
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Student Achievement Partners

Illustrative Mathematics: Fishing Adventures [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students use a model to define variables, write expressions, create an inequality and then interpreting the results in this lesson.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Increasing or Decreasing? Variation 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Animal Populations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.1: Planes and Wheat

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an exercise in creating equations from a situation with many variables. By giving three different scenarios, learners will be reviewing their definitions of the variables to emphasize the importance of defining variables when...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Calendar Fun Operations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to help students evaluate numerical expressions by using order of operations. The students will be provided a calendar for the current month of the year. Students will then be provided with a worksheet that...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Busy Day

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Seeing Dots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to identify the structure in the two algebraic expressions by interpreting them in terms of a geometric context, a series of squares filled with dot arrangements. Students are asked to notice a pattern and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Sum of Even and Odd

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, young scholars use the structure of an expression to find ways to rewrite it. They are asked to use the defining property of even and odd functions to manipulate expressions involving function notation and to see the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Kitchen Floor Tiles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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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