Pbs Learning Media: Solving an Equation for a Missing Value

Solving equations is the groundwork for all of algebra. A video presentation explains the steps for solving an equation with variables on both sides. Using a different color for each step, the instructor shows how to manipulate the...

Time to distribute some learning! The video lesson teaches how to solve an equation by applying the distributive property. Learners watch as the instructor completes each step, explaining as he goes. The first step to solving uses the...

Isolation is the name of the game. Working with an equation that has parentheses on one side of the equation, the resource shows the steps to find the solution. The solution process starts with distributing across the parentheses and...

Shouldn't the variable be on only one side? Using one equation, the resource shows how to solve an equation in which there are variable terms on both sides of the equation. The short video walks through each step needed to isolate the...

Multiple parentheses, oh my! Using an equation with parentheses on both sides of the equal sign, the video demonstrates the steps to solve it. The resource works through each step to isolate the variable to arrive at a solution. Once...

Trying to write the equation for a horizontal line given an ordered pair? Just keep in mind that a horizontal line is all about the y value in the ordered pair. Plain and simple! Whatever the y value is in the ordered pair becomes the...

Watch this tutorial to find out how to reverse the order of operations to solve an equation for a variable. [1:41]

To find the equation of a vertical line you need to use x=b to determine the equation. This tutorial explains the use of formula x=b to find a value for an unknown y. The explanation of this concept is rushed making this tutorial only...

An interactive for investigating what fraction multiplication looks like. Students choose two fractions to multiply, then observe as one fraction bar model is overlaid on the second, showing the common grid area as the product. Students...

Solve an equation that has fractions with common denominators. First step is to isolate the variable. In this equation, this can be done by using the subtraction property of equality. Now the variable is by itself but there are other...