Expressions and Equations Unit 8th Grade Math Curriculum

Four multi-day lessons make up this complete expressions and equations unit for 8th grade math. It opens with a review of solving equations and finishes with equation word problems.

Topics covered

• Solving Equations Review
• Solving Equations Using the Distributive Property and Combining Like Terms
• Solving Equations with Variables on Both Sides
• Solving Equation Word Problems

What’s included

Daily routines:

• Daily warm ups
• Weekly warm up recording sheets
• Daily exit tickets

Notes and practice:

• Unit vocabulary sheet
• Guided notes
• Fold and flip notes
• Combining Like Terms mini lesson
• Practice assignments (for homework or classwork)
• Printable student workbook

Assessments:

• Unit pre-assessment
• One quiz
• Two versions of a unit post assessment (one multiple choice and one open ended)
• Google Forms versions of the assessments

Planning and files:

• Blank lesson plan recording page
• A complete PDF of the unit
• An editable PPT version of the unit

Good to know

Activities are not included in this resource.

All questions and notes are editable, and you must have PowerPoint to use the editable file. Instructions are provided in the download to help you edit. Copyright information, backgrounds, formatting, foldable templates and the multiple choice version of the test are not editable.

Quick facts

• Topic: solving equations
• Grade: 8
• CCSS: 6.EE.B.6, 6.EE.B.7, 7.EE.B.3, 7.EE.B.4, 7.EE.B.4a, 8.EE.C.7, 8.EE.C.7a, 8.EE.C.7b
• Answer key: included

Bundles and related resources

There is a digital notebook version of this unit, the Expressions and Equations Digital Interactive Notebook for 8th Grade.

You can buy this unit on its own or get the complete 8th Grade Math Curriculum it belongs to. The completed 8th Grade Curriculum is offered as an add on to my 8th Grade Math Curriculum Resources Mega Bundle. There will be no overlap between this and the Curriculum Resources Mega Bundle.

All seven units in the 8th Grade Curriculum:

• Unit 1: Real Numbers and Exponents
• Unit 2: Equations and Expressions
• Unit 3: Linear and Functional Relationships
• Unit 4: Systems of Linear Equations
• Unit 5: Patterns and Bivariate Data
• Unit 6: Congruency and Similarity
• Unit 7: Geometry

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