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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Math You Need: Rearranging Equations to Solve for a Given Variable
This tutorial guides students through the steps in rearranging science formulas to solve for different variables. Includes practice exercises based on a variety of formulas.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Physics of the Flying T Shirt
Young scholars are introduced to the physics concepts of air resistance and launch angle as they apply to catapults. This includes the basic concepts of position, velocity and acceleration and their relationships to one another. They use...
PBS
Pbs: Solving Linear Inequalities With Negative Numbers
Solve an inequality that has negative numbers and a variable. This video focuses on using inverse operations to solve for a variable and the importance of flipping the inequality when multiplying or dividing by a negative number.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Solve a Linear Equation Involving One Unknown
This WebMath site explains how to enter your equation with one variable and solve for that variable. It explains step-by-step how to solve the equations and gives the final solutions.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Solve a Set of Two Linear Equations
This WebMath site explains how to enter your two equations with two variables and solve for those variables. It explains step-by-step how to solve the equations and gives the final solutions.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Solving Equations 1
Get independent practice determining if the variable value given is a solution for the equation. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Solving Algebraic Equations
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of solving algebraic equations. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Solving the Unknown With Algebra
Students will learn and reinforce skills for solving for unknowns, manipulating equations while keeping them in balance, using formulas to solve real-world challenges, and working with proportions, radicals and exponents.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Balancing Act
Students are given the opportunity to visualize and interact with concepts they have already learned, specifically algebraic equations and solving for unknown variables. Students construct a balancing seesaw system (LEGO Balance Scale)...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Variables
Children will learn the term variable and then work to "attack" a problem using what they know about the relationship between multiplication and division to solve for an unknown.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Pythagorean Expectation
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this interesting lesson has students use sabermetrics (the study of statistics in baseball) to determine the expected winning percentage for a team, given the runs scored and runs allowed....
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Fractions Solve for Unknown X
Solve for an unknown value x with this fractions calculator. Find the missing fraction variable in the proportion using cross multiplication to calculate the unknown variable x. Solve the proportion between 2 fractions and calculate the...
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Algebra: Algebraic Expressions
Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains many topics related to algebraic expressions. There are example problems solved, problems for the student to attempt, and answers to the student problems. Point this site out to...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.b.4.a: Visualizing Completion of the Square
The purpose of this visualization task is to help provide geometric intuition for the algebraic process called ''completing the square.'' Aligns with HSA-REI.B.4.a.
University of Waterloo (Canada)
University of Waterloo: Math Frog: Solving Equations 3
Race against the clock to see how many equations you can solve correctly in four minutes. For each equation, you will be given two variables, and you will solve for the third.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Which Is Worth More, a Smile or a Frown?
Solve for the value of the smiles and frowns to find out how much a smile is worth, in this activity. A challenge that focuses on number sense, number combinations, and unknowns. Included are examples of how this skill is applied in real...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Solving Systems of Equations With Algebraic Methods
Given verbal and/or algebraic descriptions of situations involving systems of two-variable linear equations, the student will solve the system of equations by different methods.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Solving Rational Expressions
Students will solve rational equations for unknown variables, use given information to create rational equations, and determine the relationship between rational expressions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Distributive Property for Multi Step Equations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn how to solve multi-step problems using the Distributive Property. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos...
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: An Approach to Calculus: Limits
Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains the concept of limits, including one-side limits, the limit of a function, and the definition of limit. There are example problems solved, problems for the student to attempt, and...
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Algebra: Linear Equations
Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains solving linear equations, from the basic form ax+b=c up through equations with variables on both sides and with parentheses. There are example problems solved, problems for the student...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Lesson Plan: What Is It? Solving One Step Equation
This site is a great place for lesson information on the concept of writing and solving one-step, one-variable, linear equations. Three other tabs are available besides the-What Is It? tab. They are Tips and Tricks, When Middle schoolers...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 3 Solving Multiplication and Division Equations
Use Glencoe's Math Course 3 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of solving multiplication and division equation. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom...
Doina Popovici
Math Play: Two Step Equations Basketball Game
Solve for the variable by playing this two-step equation game alone or with another student.