Objective: We will use the Frayer model to identify like terms before a hands-on cut-and-paste activity.
Objective: Students will hone their skills in combining like terms through a cut-and-paste activity.
Objective: The activity for combining like terms has an additional box for students to write their simplified answers.
Objective: Students will create an expression practice book to review the difference between terms, coefficients, and constants. After working through the practice book, students will glue it in their interactive notebooks.
Objective: Students will describe and use the distributive property to evaluate expressions.
Students are given four expressions and asked what number should be distributed in each.
Objective: Students glue the half-sheet of paper in their interactive notebooks and find the expression that is not true.
Seven of the eight expressions simplify the expression in the middle of the oval. One of the eight expressions is the odd one out.
Students must determine which expression doesn’t simplify to 3x^2 +2x + 1.
Objective: Students work in groups to flip over and match questions to answer bank.
Each group gets an explanation card with all of the rules.
Students lay out the cards individually, with the answer sides facing up. These cards form the “answer bank.” Each group chooses one card to flip over. They lay this card on their laminated question stack template to avoid confusion.
Each group member works out the problem. When the group has decided on an answer, they check the “answer bank” to see if their answer is there. If it is, they are (most likely) correct. If it isn’t, they have made a mistake. They need to check their work and/or ask for help.
If the answer is in the answer bank, this card is flipped over to reveal a new question. This process repeats until the last question is flipped over. The answer to this card should be at the bottom of the pile if all questions have been answered correctly.