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🧮 6th Grade · Math6.EE.A.3Unit 7: Expressions

Equivalent expressions

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🎯 Objective: Students use properties to generate equivalent expressions.

Lesson outline

  1. Distributive property with area models.
  2. Combine like terms.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: simplify 3(x + 4) + 2x.

Lesson 5 of 5 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

6.EE.A.3

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write, read and evaluate expressions with variables and exponents
  • Generate equivalent expressions

✅ 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”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Expressions & equations📚 All 6th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Expressions”

  1. Exponents
  2. Order of operations
  3. Writing expressions with variables
  4. Evaluating expressions
  5. Equivalent expressions

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