Access Point #: MAFS.912.A-SSE.1.AP.2cArchived Access Point

Essential Understandings

Concrete:

• Use manipulatives (pattern blocks, two-way counters) to represent the problem.
• Use a tool (such as a mat, table or graphic organizer) to separate the expression into parts.
• Use algebra tiles to represent the expression.
• Create a model with objects to show the distributive property, combining like terms and other operations with polynomials. Click Here

• Understand the following related vocabulary and symbols: add (+), subtract (-), multiply (x), divide (÷), equal (=), base number, exponent, integer.
• Understand commutative, associative, identity, and distributive properties.
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide variables.
• Understand the difference between coefficients and exponents.
• Combine coefficients.
• Combine exponents (rules of exponents).
• Select the correct expanded form of what an exponent represents: 
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• Identify the number of times the base number will be multiplied based on the exponent.
• Understand that a negative exponent will result in a fraction with a numerator of 1
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• Simplify expression into expanded form:
  ()()=(xxxx)(xxx).
• Simplify expression into the simplest form:
  ()()=(xxxx)(xxx)=(xxxxxxx)= .
• Understand the following concepts, symbols, and vocabulary for: expression, exponent, raising to a power.
• Use virtual manipulatives to represent the problem.