Garden Arrangements

Students use area models to write equivalent expressions.

By Amplify Classroom

Grades: 6th Grade

Subject: Math

Learning goals: Today’s Goals • Write expressions to represent the area of split rectangles using the distributive property. • Explain how numeric expressions related by the distributive property have the same value. (Speaking and Listening) Additional Materials counters, 42 per pair (as needed); graph paper (as needed); straightedges (as needed)