What are numerical

expressions?
Know What visual model can we use
to show an expression?

I can write and interpret numerical expressions, and

compare expressions using a visual model.
 Show

• How are visual

models being
used to represent
a given
expression?
• Why are
parentheses
necessary?
 Connect

• Imagine you
purchase a video
game that is 50%
off and also a
PS4 at Full price.
What expression
could we write?
Are parentheses
necessary?
 Multiply by Multiples of 10

21 x 10 = ______ 210 x 4 = ______

21 x 40 = ______

Write 213 x 30 as a three-step multiplication

sentence, taking out the ten.
Show your white board.

Solve using the same method…

4,213 x 20
 Application Problem
Robin is 11 years old. Her mother,
Gwen, is 2 years more than 3 times
Robin’s age. How old is Gwen?

Consider the 4 step problem solving process:

1. Understand the problem (What do you know)
2. Make a plan (How will you solve)
3. Carry out the plan (Solve it)
4. Check for Reasonability (does the answer
make sense? Revise if necessary)
Application Problem
(I do) Concept Development
 (We do do) Concept
Development

Tape diagram answer

Expression answer
3 × (26 + 4) or (26 + 4) × 3
Why are parentheses necessary around 26 + 4?
Talk to your partner.
 (They do) Concept
Development
6 times the difference between 60 and 51
Work with a partner to show a tape diagram and
expression to match these words.

6 × (60 – 51) or (60 – 51) × 6

Answers beneath

You’ve offered two different expressions for these

words. Are these expressions equal? Why or why not?

What is the name of this property?

 (I do) Concept Development
Write the sum of 2 twelves and 4 threes

Represent this with a tape diagram and expression.

 (We do) Concept Development
8 × (43 – 13)
Read this expression in words.
Why can’t we simply read every expression left to
right and translate it?

We can say and write, “8 times the difference of 43

and 13.” Compare these words to the ones we said
Answers

at first.
 (They do) Concept
Development
Compare the two expressions without evaluating,
using diagrams.
The sum of 10 and 9, doubled and (2 x 10) + (2 x 9)
Problem Set
Group A problems 1, 2, and 3 and 4.
Group B problems 1, 2, 3 and 5.
group C problems 1, 2, 3, and 6.
 Debrief (Fishbowl)
Return to the Application Problem. Create a numerical
expression to represent Gwen’s age.

In Problem 1(b) some of you wrote 4 × (14 + 26) and

others wrote (14 + 26) × 4. Are both expressions
acceptable? Explain.

When evaluating the expression in Problem 2(a), a

student got 85. Can you identify the error in thinking?
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