Grade 6 · Expressions and Equations

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.EE.B.5

Understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true? Use substitution to determine whether a given number in a specified set makes an equation or inequality true.

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Lessons that teach this standard

• Writing Equations and Inequalities from Words

  How to turn a worded problem into an equation or inequality, what solving actually asks, which words signal each inequality sign, and how two quantities relate.