Lesson Plan: Evaluating Numerical Expressions: Distributive Property Mathematics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to use the distributive property of multiplication for addition and subtraction to rewrite numerical expressions and evaluate them.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- evaluate an expression of the form by using the distributive property,
- evaluate an expression of the form by using the distributive property,
- evaluate an expression of the form by using the distributive property,
- evaluate an expression of the form by using the distributive property.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the order of operations,
- multiplying numbers in parentheses.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- rewriting algebraic expressions using the distributive property.
