Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
Concrete:
- Use visual representations to demonstrate that expressions can be equivalent, but different (3 + 8 = 6 + 5).
- Use manipulatives to represent a situation that involves parentheses.
- Write equivalent expressions in numerical form.
- When given a verbal expression (i.e., The sum of eight and y multiplied by 5), students must select the appropriate algebraic expression [5 (8 + y)].
- Understand the following concept and vocabulary for equivalent and expressions.
| Number: MAFS.6.EE.1.AP.3a | Category: Access Points |
| Date Adopted or Revised: 07/14 |
Cluster:
Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions. (Major Cluster) : 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. |