Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- properties of operations can be used to identify or create equivalent linear expressions.
- Equivalent expressions can reveal real-world and mathematical relationships, and some forms of equivalent expressions can provide more insight than others.
Skills
Students are able to:
- determine whether two expressions are equivalent.
- Rewrite expressions into equivalent forms by combining like terms, using the distributive property, and factoring.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- rewriting expressions in multiple equivalent forms allows for thinking about problems in different ways and highlights different aspects/relationships of quantities in problems.
Vocabulary
- like terms
- Equivalent expressions
- Distributive property
- Factor
