Lesson 20
Combining Like Terms (Part 1)
Lesson Narrative
In this lesson, students have a chance to recall one way of understanding equivalent expressions, that is, the expressions have the same value for any number substituted for a variable. Then they use properties they have studied over the past several lessons to understand how to properly write an equivalent expression using fewer terms. We are gently building up to students being able to fluently combine like terms, though that language is not used with students yet.
Learning Goals
Teacher Facing
- Apply properties of operations to justify (orally and in writing) that expressions are equivalent.
- Generate an expression that is equivalent to a given expression with fewer terms.
- Interpret different methods for determining whether expressions are equivalent, and evaluate (orally) their usefulness.
Student Facing
Let's see how we can tell that expressions are equivalent.
Learning Targets
Student Facing
- I can figure out whether two expressions are equivalent to each other.
- When possible, I can write an equivalent expression that has fewer terms.
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