Like terms activity

Combining Like Terms is taught before they get to me, but it is always good to have a quick review before we start equations. This is one of my favorite additions to the review! You can grab the cards here. I printed on red, green, yellow, and blue paper and then cut. I wasn't sure if I would love it, so I did not laminate. I also made copies of the directions for each group because I tweaked the game play just a little. Students shuffled the deck and dealt five cards to each player. I did…

Last summer, I wrote about all the things I intended to do with my students to help them learn how to combine like terms. While the concep...

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Combining like terms is such an important topic in 7th and 8th grade math. As teachers it often seems so intuitive to us that terms have to be alike in order to be combined. For some reason, though, many students need a lot of repetitions to really get this concept down pat. Even though we […]

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Hello all! I feel like it has been forever since I blogged, but I do have a plan this year to blog AT LEAST three times a week. I made a promise to myself at the beginning of the summer that I will finish up my Masters and take a two month break from doing anything work related. It was soooo nice but now I am feeling the stress of coming back to work. Last school year, I was the Algebra 1 Math Interventionist and this year, they are changing my title to "Math Instructional Coach." I am very…

My Smarties have been working hard lately in Math. We have A LOT... A LOT of work to do. One of the big ticket items for us is the Distributive Property. Using this, we have to learn how to combine like terms and be very proficient with simplifing expressions using the Greatest Common Factor. There are several items that I begin with in the fall. One of which is Prime Numbers and Greatest Common Factor. The easiest thing that I've found is using the Prime Ladder Method. I want my students to…

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Free PDF Printable for a Combining Like Terms Cut and Paste Activity I put together for my Algebra Students to Get Extra Practice Identifying and Combining Like Terms.