Grade 7 · Expressions and Equations

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.EE.A.2

Understand that rewriting an expression in different forms in a problem context can shed light on the problem and how the quantities in it are related.

Read this standard on the official Common Core site

Lessons that teach this standard

• The Distributive Property: Expanding and Factoring

  How to multiply across a bracket, why the area model explains it, how a negative outside the bracket changes every sign, and how to factor by reversing the process.