Expressions & Equations CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE

Expressions & Equations CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE

This teaching resource is designed to help educators, including public school teachers and homeschoolers, refine their learners' understanding of the 7th Grade Expressions & Equations Standards. The emphasis is on:

• Applying operational strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients.
• Understanding how rewriting an expression in different forms can elucidate the problem and its related quantities.

The proficiency for solving multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with positive and negative rational numbers is a key aspect of this resource. Furthermore, it aids students in harnessing their reasoning abilities via tools that handle numbers in any form: whole numbers, fractions or decimals.

The Expressions & Equations CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE resource also allows for honing skills with variables as pupils are encouraged to represent quantities in real-world or mathematical problems through equations and inequalities. By way of such representation students learn to understand deliberate inequalities move forward by reasoning about related quantities.

• Full-class instruction : guiding students collectively towards learning objectives;
• Small group facilitation : facilitating peer-based collaborative learning;
• Individual homework assignment :, ensuring reinforcement of classroom concepts at home.

Housing four constructed response scenarios compatible with Google Slides apart from printable versions also means this package integrates effortlessly into digital classrooms or traditional paper-based settings alike.

Included are grading recommendations coupled with an easy-to-use rubic:

• Makes assessment simple yet effective

• Reliable self-check mechanism while scoring student responses.

The topics assessed involve:

1. Identifying equivalent expressions (factored/expanded/distributed)
2. Solving & checking 2-step equations in the form p(x + q) = r
3. Error analysis procedures for solving two-step inequalities amongst many others.

This resource contains the SAME 4 Constructed Response Scenarios in the following formats:

1) Printable Version (works best for students to show their hand-written work)

2) A version for Google Slides

3) Grading Recommendations/Simple Rubric

4) Answer Key

The four topics assessed are:

1) Identifying equivalent expressions (factored/expanded/distributed)

2) Solving & checking 2-step equations in the form p(x + q) = r

3) Error analysis of solving a 2-step inequality

4) Multi-step problem with rational numbers