Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities

Grades: 7th Grade

• Overview

• 7.6 Unit Overview

• Pre-Unit

• 7.6 Pre-Unit Check

• Sub-Unit 1: Equations and Tape Diagrams

  Students use tape diagrams to represent equations and situations in context and determine unknown values.

• Toothpicks and Tiles
• Smudged Receipts
• Equations
• Seeing Structure

• Sub-Unit 2: Solving Equations

  Students learn how to solve equations of the form `px+q=r` and `p(x+q)=r` in and out of context. They also rewrite equivalent expressions using fewer terms by adding, expanding, and factoring.

• Balancing Moves
• Balancing Equations
• Keeping It True
• Factoring and Expanding
• Always-Equal Machines
• Collect the Squares
• Pass the Equation
• Community Day
• 7.6 Practice Day 1
• 7.6 Sub-Unit Quiz

• Sub-Unit 3: Inequalities

  Students use what they have learned about solving equations to solve inequalities that represent situations in and out of context. They also create graphs that represent solutions to inequalities, including those with `\ge`(less-than-or-equal-to) or `\le` (greater-than-or-equal-to).

• I Saw the Signs
• Unbalanced Hangers
• Budgeting
• Shira the Sheep
• Write Them and Solve Them
• 7.6 Practice Day 2

• End-Unit

• 7.6 End-of-Unit Assessments

• Resources

• 7.6 Lesson Practice
• 7.6 Additional Practice
• 7.6 Show What You Knows

• Differentiation and Personalized Learning

• 7.6 Differentiation and Personalized Learning