Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
Concrete:
- Use manipulatives to combine like terms (i.e., demonstrate 5x + 3x by combining 5 blue blocks and 3 blue blocks).
- Identify what is and what is not a like term (e.g., 3 oranges and 5 apples are not like terms; 3 oranges and 5 oranges are like terms).
- Understand the following concepts, symbols, and vocabulary for: like terms, combine, variables, positive integer, negative integer.
- Use tools, as needed, to complete the four operations with integers.
| Number: MAFS.7.EE.1.AP.2a | Category: Access Points |
| Date Adopted or Revised: 07/14 |
Cluster:
Use properties of operations to generate equivalent 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. |