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Garden Market: Formula Checks

Check equivalent expressions using garden market situations, properties, tables, and counterexamples.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.EE.A.4

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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, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students identify expressions that have the same value for every value of the variable.
Students use properties of operations to justify equivalent expressions.
Students use counterexamples to show that two expressions are not equivalent.

How to use

Use after teaching the distributive property and combining like terms. Have students work independently, then discuss why one matching value does not prove equivalence.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.EE.A.4

Decide when two expressions are equivalent, meaning they name the same number for any value of the variable.

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Garden Market: Formula Checks

Decide which expressions give the same result for every value of the variable.

Prepare the Market Stall

Expressions are equivalent only if they give the same number for every value of the variable. Use properties of operations to check each expression.

The garden club packs 4 baskets. Each basket contains n tomatoes and 3 peppers. Which expression is equivalent to 4(n + 3), the total number of vegetables?