6.EE.A.1: Whole-number exponents (5 squared, 2 to the 10th)

Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, as adopted in the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Mathematics (2017), Grade 6.

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How ColorMyMath teaches it

Letters stand for quantities you can still picture. A balance stays level, a function machine shows what it did, and doubling grows as a shape you can watch.

Every page is free and open — nothing to install, no account, and it works on a phone or a classroom board. Every number has its own color: 1 red, 2 orange, 3 yellow, 4 green, 5 blue, 6 purple, 7 brown, 8 pink, 9 cyan, and a number is that many colored dots.

Where it sits in the curriculum

• Step 63Squares 1 through 15
• Step 64Squares 1 through 20
• Step 65Squares 1 through 25
• Step 66Algorithms for the squares of 10, 15, 20 … 55
• Step 67Algorithms for the squares of 60, 65 … 110
• Step 73Algebra: doubling as exponential growth — 2 to the 10th
• Step 74Geometry: Volume as polynomial growth — cubes of 1 to 10

More Grade 6 standards in Expressions and Equations

• 6.EE.A.2Letters stand for numbers: write, evaluate and name the parts of 2n + 3
• 6.EE.A.3Use the distributive property to write equivalent expressions
• 6.EE.A.4Equivalent expressions: put numbers in and see the dots match every time
• 6.EE.B.5Which values from a set make an equation or inequality true: test each one
• 6.EE.B.6Write an expression for a story; say what the letter stands for
• 6.EE.B.7Solve x + p = q and px = q on a balance scale
• 6.EE.B.8Write x > c or x < c; infinitely many answers, drawn on a number line
• 6.EE.C.9Two quantities that change together: table, graph and d = 65t

ColorMyMath · getridoftheteacher.com · every number has its own color, and a number is that many colored dots. Matching a game to a standard is a judgement call; the official text is at doe.mass.edu.