Writing One-Step Equations to Match Scenarios #1

Translate scenarios to one-step equations with this story-stacked worksheet! This activity allows students at the sixth-grade math level to make sense of situations and relationships between quantities. For each problem, learners will represent relationships with operations and write a one-variable equation that describes the story.

As students progress from one-step equations to more complex operations, it’s important that they have a versatile understanding of writing equations. This activity provides the stepping stones to more difficult problems, such as multi-step equations and equations with multiple variables!

Ready to upgrade your one-step equation game? Write and Solve Equations From Word Problems is a worksheet that practices the same concept, but with longer stories to strengthen reading comprehension. For straightforward equation-solving practice, One-Step Addition and Subtraction Equations #1 is one of many resources that focus on one-variable equations.