Math Curriculum

6th Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will calculate and apply operations with positive rational numbers. Students will relate multiplication and division to ratios and proportional relationships. Students will construct and evaluate expressions and generate and solve equations. 

Outcomes and Components:

M.6.6

 

Students will write algebraic expressions to represent quantities and determine if expressions are equivalent.

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Assess

 

Component Code

 

Component

Standard(s)

    M.6.6.1   Evaluate algebraic expressions given specific values, using the order of operations, to include evaluating formulas. 6.EE.A.2.c
    M.6.6.2   Identify if two expressions are equivalent by substituting a value for the variables in both expressions. 6.EE.A.4
    M.6.6.3   Generate equivalent expressions by combining like terms. 6.EE.A.3
    M.6.6.4   Generate equivalent expressions using the distributive property. 6.EE.A.3
    M.6.6.5   Use variables to represent any unknown number in a specified set and write expressions when solving a real world or mathematical problem. 6.EE.A.6

Academic Vocabulary: 

Content Vocabulary: halgebraic expression, variable, coefficient, constant, equivalent expression, like terms