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1 True False Equations – Student Version

Background Skills/Do Now
1. Which of the following are expressions? Circle all possible answers. 2. Simplify the expression.

A. 3x 1 1
√25 + 32 + 6 ( – )
B. m = 2 2 3
C. y > 1
D. x – 1
E. 5

3. Review From Yesterday 4. Spiral Review

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Think!
A number sentence is a comparison between two or more quantities. Comparison symbols include =, >, ≥, <, ≤, ≅, ≈, and ≠.

1. For each of the following number sentences, determine whether it is true or false algebraically. Then, justify your
answer by creating a visual or a real-life scenario.

a) 8 ∙ 3 = 4 ∙ 6

b) 8 ÷ 4 = 8 ÷ 2 + 8 ÷ 2

2. Explain in your own words how we can check whether a number sentence is true or false.

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Practice Problems
Level 1
1. What is a number sentence? 2. a) Give an example of a number sentence.

b) Is your example true or false?

3. Fill in the blanks with = or ≠ to make each statement true. 4. a) Complete the statement to make a true number sentence: 6 – 4 = .

a) 3 + 3 6 b) Complete the statement to make a false number sentence: 6 – 4 = .

b) 3 ∙ 3 6

5. What does it mean for a number sentence equation to be true? 6. a) Determine whether each number sentence is true or false. Explain your reasoning.
i. 4 + 8 = 10 + 5

1 5
ii. 2 + = 1.2 – 0.075
8

iii. (71 ∙ 603) ∙ 5876 = 603 ∙ (5876 ∙ 71)

b) What property or properties tell us part iii. is true?

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 7. a) Determine whether each number sentence is true or false. Justify your answers. 8. a) Determine whether each number sentence is true or false. Justify your answers
i. (7 + 9)2 = 72 + 92 algebraically.
i. 32 + 42 = 72

ii. √4 + 9 = √4 + √9
ii. 32 × 42 = 122

iii. π = 3.141
iii. 32 × 33 = 35

b) Explain how you got your answer for part i. above.

b) Explain how you arrived at your answer for part iii.

c) How could you change the comparison symbol in part iii. to make the number
sentence true?

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 Level 2
9. a) Determine whether each number sentence is true or false. 10. a) Are the two number sentences true?
1 1 2
i. 2 + 3 = 5
22 + 18 = 18 + 22
22 – 18 = 18 – 22
1 1 1
ii. 2 + 3 = 6 b) What property do these number sentences illustrate?

1 1 5
iii. 2 + 3 = 6

b) Why can only at most one of the equations above be true?

11. Use the distributive property to write a number sentence that is true. 12. Jeremy says that 15 = 10 + 5, so the following number sentence must be true. Is
he correct? If so, justify his answer. If not, explain and correct the equation to make it
true.

60 ÷ 15 = 60 ÷ 10 + 5

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 Level 3
13. a) Fill in the pattern. 14. When rounding 8.04 to the tenth, we get 8.0.

21 – 9 = 20 – 8 = – = – . a) Tonya uses this to state that 8.04 = 8.0. Explain why she is incorrect.

b) Explain the pattern and why it creates a true number sentence.

b) Use your explanation from part a) to explain why rounding an answer typically gives
an approximate answer and not an exact answer.

c) The symbol ≈ means the given answer is an approximation. Rewrite the statement
8.04 = 8.0 from part a) using ≈.

d) Create another rounding problem to fill in the blank 10.579 ≈ Explain your
answer.

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 15. Forest ate 2 apples. Then, he ate 3 more apples. If he started with 10 apples, how 16. Agatha says the number sentence 23 ≠ 6 is false because 23 is 8, not 6. Is she
many does he have now? correct? If so, explain why she is correct. If not, explain the flaw in her logic.

Alphonse solved the word problem shown above. His work is shown below. In his
work, did he create a true number sentence? Explain.

10 – 2 = 8 – 3 = 5 → Forest has 5 apples.

Challenge
17. Sebastian says the equation 2x = 10 is sometimes true and sometimes false. Is he correct?

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Ticket To Leave
1. Write a number sentence that is true. 2. Is each number sentence true or false? Justify algebraically.

a) 3 + 4 = 8

b) 82 + 82 = 162

3. Fellow’s Choice 4. Fellow’s Choice

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Ticket to Leave Reflection
1. What were the main concepts, ideas, or skills you
learned or improved upon during tutorial?
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2. Choose at least one of the following questions to 3. What question(s) do you have about today’s work?
answer:
a) What did you learn from a mistake or misconception
(either yours or someone else’s)?
b) How do the concepts you learned today connect to
another concept you know?
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