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 an expression in different forms in a problem context can clarify the problem.
- Rewriting an expression can clarify how the quantities in the problem are related.
Vocabulary
- Like terms
- Equivalent expressions
- Distributive property
- Factor
