Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Equations With Parentheses: Decimals & Fractions

For Students 7th - 8th
Solve linear equations that contain expressions with parentheses and the coefficients are rational numbers. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Simplifying With Parentheses

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains, with worked examples, how to simplify expressions which involve parentheses and variables, including how to take a negative through the parentheses.
Activity
Help Algebra

Help algebra.com: Getting Rid of Parentheses

For Students 9th - 10th
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.