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Examples of Opportunities for In-Depth FocusBy applying properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions, students use properties of operations that they are familiar with from previous grades’ work with numbers — generalizing arithmetic in the process.
Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.
- Assessment Limits :
Positive rational numbers, values may include exponents. Variables must be included in the expression. For items using distribution, coefficients may be fractions before distribution but must be integer values after simplification. Only positive rational numbers may be distributed. - Calculator :
No
- Context :
Allowable
- Test Item #: Sample Item 1
- Question:
Alyssa attends football games at her school. At each football game, she buys a bottle of water for $0.75 and a candy bar for $0.90.
Select all the expressions that represent the amount of money, in dollars, Alyssa spends after attending 6 football games.
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MS: Multiselect
- Test Item #: Sample Item 2
- Question: Tina sells lampshades for $7 each and paper lanterns for $4 each at a
one-day craft fair. She sells k lampshades and (k + 4) paper lanterns.
The expression 7k + 4(k + 4) represents Tina’s total sales.
Select all the equivalent expressions for Tina's total sales at the fair.
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MS: Multiselect
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MFAS Formative Assessments
Students are asked to write expressions equivalent to a given one by using the Associative and Commutative Properties.
Students are asked to generate and justify an expression equivalent to a given one using the properties of operations.
Students are asked to write equivalent expressions using the Distributive Property.
Computer Science Original Student Tutorials
Explore computer coding on the farm by using IF statements and repeat loops to evaluate mathematical expressions. In this interactive tutorial, you'll also solve problems involving inequalities.
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Original Student Tutorial
Explore computer coding on the farm by using IF statements and repeat loops to evaluate mathematical expressions. In this interactive tutorial, you'll also solve problems involving inequalities.
Click below to check out the other tutorials in the series.
- MacCoder’s Farm Part 1: Declare Variables
- MacCoder’s Farm Part 2: Condition Statements
- MacCoder's Farm Part 3: IF Statements
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Problem-Solving Tasks
The purpose of this task is to ask students to write expressions and to consider what it means for two expressions to be equivalent.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to solve a challenging multistep percentage problem that can be approached in several different ways. Students are asked to find the cost of a meal before tax and tip when given the total cost of the meal. The task can illustrate multiple standards depending on the prior knowledge of the students and the approach used to solve the problem.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Student Center Activity
Students can practice answering mathematics questions on a variety of topics. With an account, students can save their work and send it to their teacher when complete.
Type: Student Center Activity
Tutorials
In this video, you will practice using arithmetic properties with integers to determine if expressions are equivalent.
Type: Tutorial
Learn how to apply the distributive law of multiplication over addition and why it works. This is sometimes just called the distributive law or the distributive property.
Type: Tutorial
Learn how to apply the distributive property of multiplication over subtraction. This is sometimes just called the distributive property or distributive law.
Type: Tutorial
Learn how to apply the distributive property to algebraic expressions.
Type: Tutorial
Students will simplify an expression by combining like terms.
Type: Tutorial
This tutorial is an explanation on how to combine like terms in algebra.
Type: Tutorial
This is an introduction to combining like terms in this tutorial.
Type: Tutorial
The distributive property states that the terms of addition or subtraction statements within parentheses may be separately multiplied by a value outside the parentheses. In this tutorial, students will learn the distributive property, which is very helpful with mental math calculations and solving equations.
Type: Tutorial
Take a look at the logic behind the associative and distributive properties of multiplication.
Type: Tutorial
A look behind the fundamental properties of the most basic arithmetic operation, addition
Type: Tutorial
The commutative property is common to the operations of both addition and multiplication and is an important property of many mathematical systems.
Type: Tutorial
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Problem-Solving Tasks
The purpose of this task is to ask students to write expressions and to consider what it means for two expressions to be equivalent.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to solve a challenging multistep percentage problem that can be approached in several different ways. Students are asked to find the cost of a meal before tax and tip when given the total cost of the meal. The task can illustrate multiple standards depending on the prior knowledge of the students and the approach used to solve the problem.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Tutorial
The distributive property states that the terms of addition or subtraction statements within parentheses may be separately multiplied by a value outside the parentheses. In this tutorial, students will learn the distributive property, which is very helpful with mental math calculations and solving equations.
Type: Tutorial