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🧮 5th Grade · Math5.OA.A.2Unit 10: Numerical expressions & patterns

Writing expressions

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🎯 Objective: Students write expressions from words without evaluating them.

Lesson outline

  1. Translate “Add 8 and 7, then multiply by 2” to 2 × (8 + 7).
  2. Interpret 3 × (18,932 + 921) as three times as large without computing.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: write one expression.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

5.OA.A.2

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write and evaluate expressions with parentheses
  • Generate two patterns and compare them

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Numerical expressions & patterns”

  1. Order of operations
  2. Writing expressions
  3. Two patterns

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