Partnering Cards Using Equivalent Expressions

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As I was thinking about school today, I was thinking about one of our next topics: equivalent expressions. (CCSS.6.EE.A3: Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions. For example, apply the distributive property to the expression 3 (2 + x) to produce the equivalent expression 6 + 3x; apply the distributive property to the expression 24x + 18y to produce the equivalent expression 6 (4x + 3y); apply properties of operations to y + y + y to produce the equivalent expression 3y.) 
Last year, I worked this concept in through the use of my daily math warm-ups, which brought the idea back time and again, and the students did well with it. This year, even though we will spend more time with direct instruction, I was thinking about other ways to use equivalent expressions, and I thought of using them for partnering cards! We can use them many times throughout the year as quick, random reinforcement.
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You can download these for free, if you'd like. There are 6 pages, with 3 sets on each page, giving you 18 sets (36 students). The set is in the download twice - once with a background and once without.

** Update: I used these today and they worked well! I printed the set with the background and quickly glued them onto index cards this morning, because I wanted to use them today. I'll laminate them before using again.

I hope you can use them!

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