Writing Algebraic Expressions
Practice writing expressions with variables with these printable worksheets and task cards.

Get students thinking about the logical ranges of variables in real-world contexts. Students will write a one-step expression to match a situation, then tell what kind(s) of numbers the variable could represent: whole, negative, and/or fractions and decimals.
6th Grade
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Create one-step algebraic expressions with a variable to represent each of the given situations.
6th Grade
Match the one-step algebraic expressions with the situations described in words.
5th through 7th Grades
Use these 30 task cards to help your students learn to write algebraic expressions. These cards work well for classroom scavenger hunts, peer tutoring, learning centers, and document cameras.
6th Grade
Translate 4 real-world situations into expressions, evaluate them for a given value, and tell whether a given number could be part of a variable's possible sets. Includes a question with a negative elevation.
6th Grade
On this worksheet, students will use variables to write algebraic expressions to represent the 10 situations described.
6th Grade
Print out this worksheet and have your students match the two-step algebraic expressions on the left to the correct situations on the right.
6th and 7th Grades
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