Classroom Idea Sheet

Algebra Rummy

Knowledge of simple algebraic terminology allows players to form a “like terms flush” or “coefficient three of a kind” combinations and be first to dispose of all cards in hand.

Standards alignment

Common Standards — cross-referenced to the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards and the California Content Standards.
StandardFrameworkGradeSubjectDomain
6.EE.1. Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.Common Core MathematicsGrade 6Expressions And EquationsApply And Extend Previous Understandings Of Arithmetic To Algebraic Expressions
6.EE.2. Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers.Common Core MathematicsGrade 6Expressions And EquationsApply And Extend Previous Understandings Of Arithmetic To Algebraic Expressions
6.EE.3. Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.Common Core MathematicsGrade 6Expressions And EquationsApply And Extend Previous Understandings Of Arithmetic To Algebraic Expressions
6.EE.4. Identify when two expressions are equivalent (i.e., when the two expressions name the same number regardless of which value is substituted into them). For example, the expressions y + y + y and 3y are equivalent because they name the same number regardless of which number y stands for.Common Core MathematicsGrade 6Expressions And EquationsFor 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
6.EE.5. Understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true? Use substitution to determine whether a given number in a specified set makes an equation or inequality true.Common Core MathematicsGrade 6Expressions And EquationsReason About And Solve One-Variable Equations And Inequalities
6.EE.6. Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions when solving a real-world or mathematical problem; understand that a variable can represent an unknown number, or, depending on the purpose at hand, any number in a specified set.Common Core MathematicsGrade 6Expressions And EquationsReason About And Solve One-Variable Equations And Inequalities
7.EE.4. Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical problem, and construct simple equations and inequalities to solve problems by reasoning about the quantities.Common Core MathematicsGrade 7Expressions And EquationsSolve Real-Life And Mathematical Problems Using Numerical And Algebraic Expressions And Equations
California Standards — cross-referenced to the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards and the California Content Standards.
StandardFrameworkGradeSubjectDomain
1.0 Students express quantitative relationships using algebraic terminology, expressions, equations, inequalities and graphs.CA MathematicsGrade 702. Algebra and Functions
1.4 Use algebraic terminology (e.g., variable, equation, term, coefficient, inequality, expression, constant) correctly.CA MathematicsGrade 702. Algebra and Functions1.0 Students express quantitative relationships using algebraic terminology, expressions, equations, inequalities and graphs.

About this sheet

Grades covered

Grade 6 – Grade 8

Curriculum topics

Algebraic Terminology, Vocabulary, & Expressions

Sheet number

604