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Basketball Bracket Scorebook

Write algebraic expressions for a youth basketball tournament using scoring, score differences, averages, and bracket changes.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.EE.A.2.a

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1 Common Core standard
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14 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 6
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students translate operation phrases into expressions with variables.
Students write expressions for basketball scoring and tournament bracket situations.
Students explain how operation order changes the meaning of an expression.

How to use

Use after introducing variables and operation language. Have students annotate what each variable represents before choosing or writing an expression.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.EE.A.2.a

Write expressions in which letters stand for numbers to record operations, such as 5 less than y as y - 5.

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Basketball Bracket Scorebook

Translate tournament scoring and bracket plans into expressions.

Scorebook Language

Choose or write an expression, not an equation. A variable may represent a different quantity in each question.

A scorekeeper uses p for a team's points. Which expression means 9 more than p?

A. 9p
B. p − 9
C. p + 9
D. p ÷ 9

A team has x points before a score correction. Which expression means 6 less than x?

A. x − 6
B. 6 − x
C. 6x
D. x + 6

A team makes n three-point baskets. Write an expression for the points earned from those baskets. Write the number directly before n, without a multiplication sign.

Expression:

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