BBC
Bbc: Manipulation of Aglebraic Expressions
Pick up some valuable pointers on how to simplify and factor algebraic expressions. When you finish working your way through the pages, you can take an online "Test Bite" and check your understanding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 3.2 Revisiting Exponential Expressions and Equations
This section draws on the different laws of exponents that have been covered in previous sections and uses them to simplify exponential expressions. Additionally, the lesson explores the impact on the simplified expression when the laws...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Algebraic Expression
This resource helps with understanding the concept of variables, constants, terms, and coefficients of any algebraic expression. Learn how to simplify algebraic expressions using algebraic formulas and the different types of expressions.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Simplifying With Parentheses
Explains, with worked examples, how to simplify expressions which involve parentheses and variables, including how to take a negative through the parentheses.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Negative Exponents
This resource covers negative exponents and demonstrates how to simplify expressions containing them. Explains why "to the power zero" means "equals 1".A negative exponent just means that the base 'x' is on the wrong side of the fraction...
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Algebra: Removing Grouping Symbols
Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains removing grouping symbols like parentheses, braces, and brackets. There are example problems solved, problems for the student to attempt, and answers to the student problems. Point this...
Math Planet
Math Planet: Radical Expressions: Simplify Radical Expressions
How to simplify radical expressions is explained through the use of examples and a video lesson. [2:29]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 2.2 Dividing Rational Expressions
This section investigates the process for dividing rational expressions that are written as fractions. Additionally, it provides opportunities to explore different processes for simplifying rational expressions written as fractions prior...
Help Algebra
Help algebra.com: Getting Rid of Parentheses
Resource explains how to simplify several types of expressions that contain expressions using the properties of addition and multiplication and applying the properties with the order of operations.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fortune Properties
This lesson teaches students how to recognize and apply the Identity Property and Equality Properties by simplifying algebraic expressions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 2.7 Simple Radical Models
This section explores both expressions and equations with radical signs that can be modeled using real-world situations, and provides opportunities to simplify and/or solve problems that require eliminating radicals.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Partial Fraction Decomposition: General Techniques
Partial-fraction decomposition is the process of starting with the simplified answer and taking it back apart, of "decomposing" the final expression into its initial polynomial fractions. This reference material demonstrates the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers
The goal of this lesson is for students to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae,...