Question

What does it mean to write the expression to match the words

Answer 1

So what this means is that you want to translate a word problem into an equation of some sort.

For example, if the word problem is:
John has 3 apples and Mike has 4 apples. How many apples do they have together?

The expression would be:

3 + 4 = 7

Let me know if that makes sense to you.