This lesson teaches students to solve one-step equations using tape diagrams. Through the construction of tape diagrams, students create algebraic equations and solve for one variable. This lesson not only allows students to continue studying the properties of operations and identity but also allows students to develop intuition of the properties of equality.
This lesson purposefully omits focusing on the actual properties of equality, which are covered in Grade 7.
Students relate an equation directly to diagrams and verbalize what they do with diagrams to construct and solve algebraic equations.
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