Like Terms

Your class gathers into groups based on a shape that they are handed. This provides the visual for the gathering of like terms, which then leads them to be able to write equivalent expressions.

Teach pupils to handle fractions fluently. The sixth installment in the series of 28 has class members apply the concepts learned in previous lessons to expressions with fractional coefficients. The fractions are both mixed numbers and...

Challenge your mathematicians to simplify and solve a variety of different equations. This activity focuses on multi-step problems that begin with combining like terms and advance toward solving equations with variables on both sides. A...

Multiple-step problems don't have to equal tough problems. This worksheet provides a list of steps needed to go through multi-step equations that include combining like terms and distributing. With ten problems total, your learners will...

Multi-step equations can be confusing with all those things to remember. This activity starts with a guide to review the important steps needed to solve the equations. The problems incorporate combining like terms, distributing a...

It is not good enough to have the same variable, they must have the same exponents too. The video introduces the class to like terms, while giving the definition of like terms and providing examples of combining like terms through addition.

Help new algebra pupils learn how to combine like terms with rational coefficients with a video lesson. Make sure to point out the common mistakes of not following the order of operations or changing signs when rearranging terms. The...

Take everything your learners know about combining like terms with the commutative, associative, and distributive properties, and put it together in one lesson. This last video in a series of seven, takes all the prior knowledge and...

Show your learners what like terms are with different types of cookies. The video puts different types of cookies together and explains when we combine these different types. It can be used as introduction to a lesson, as it does not...

Subtracting like terms, combining like terms, simplifying an expressions all refer to the same thing. The teacher explains two different methods of simplifying this subtraction expression.