Unpacking a Standard

Name: Riley Hoffer

1. Unwrap the standard by highlighting the concepts blue, and the skills yellow. Highlight the
contexts in pink.
2. List the concepts and content in the chart
3. List the skills in the chart.
4. List the components separately
5. Determine if the components will be taught together or separately.

Name: Content area: Math

A.SSE.1.
A.SSE.1a.
A.SSE.2.
Standard
A.SSE.1. Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context.
A.SSE.1a. Interpret parts of an expression, such as terms, factors, and coefficients.
A.SSE.2. Use the structure of an expression to identify ways to rewrite it

Content: Skills:
Expressions that represent a quantity Interpret

Parts of an expression Interpret

Structure of an expression Identify

Science Only: Crosscutting concept –

Components

Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context.

Interpret parts of an expression, such as terms, factors, and coefficients.

Use the structure of an expression to identify ways to rewrite it

Instructional decisions

I will give students expressions with repeated similar structure and hopefully have them recognize the
pattern and develop a consistent way to rewrite the expressions