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🧮 6th Grade · Math6.EE.B.5Unit 8: Equations & inequalities

What is a solution?

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🎯 Objective: Students decide whether a value makes an equation true.

Lesson outline

  1. Test values.
  2. Hanger diagrams.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: is x = 4 a solution to 3x = 12?

Lesson 1 of 4 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.B.5

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Solve one-step equations
  • Write and graph inequalities
  • Analyze relationships between dependent and independent variables

✅ 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 “Equations & inequalities”

  1. What is a solution?
  2. Solving one-step equations
  3. Inequalities
  4. Dependent and independent variables

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