Combining Similar Price Together With The Distributive Belongings Interactive Notebook Pages

Our 3rd science this twelvemonth inward Algebra 1 is to travel able to rewrite expressions, equations, in addition to inequalities past times applying the distributive holding in addition to combining similar terms.  I was able to accept how I taught these concepts in conclusion twelvemonth (blog posts here in addition to here) in addition to improve them (hopefully) for the better.  I own got a few students taking Algebra 1 with me for a 2nd fourth dimension due to failing in conclusion year, in addition to they commented that I taught this means improve this twelvemonth than in conclusion year.  

Here are our finished notes on combining similar terms:

I was multi-tasking (aka eating lunch) spell I was doing this, in addition to I ended upwards making a few arithmetics mistakes.  I intend I fixed them all, though.

I gave my students the 3 expressions on a pocket-size slice of paper.  They cutting them into private strips of expressions.

Then, 1 at at a time, nosotros cutting the strips into their private terms.  After making a pile of terms, I asked students to apply what nosotros had merely learned close the Definition of similar damage to seat their damage into piles.  I would inquire students how many groups of damage they ended upwards with.  Different students grouped them differently, in addition to this led to dandy discussions alongside my students.  They would dorsum upwards their points of persuasion with the Definition which was awesome!

Here's a student's operate on putting the damage for the outset aspect into groups:

Once nosotros were all happy with how the damage were grouped, nosotros glued them in.

I overheard a pupil tell "This is fun!" every bit she was deciding how to seat the damage into groups.  It was dandy formative assessment for me every bit a instructor to run into how the lesson was going.  

As a class, nosotros combined the coefficients or constants to shape our final, simplified answer.  

On the side past times side day, nosotros continued combining similar damage inward the context of applying the distributive property.  I wanted to produce this inward a means that tied direct into the "grouping" of similar damage nosotros had been doing on the twenty-four hours before.  I'm pretty proud of the means I came upwards with to produce this!  

Here's the exterior of our foldable:

And the inside:

Before nosotros started whatsoever distributing, I had my students specify just what release they would travel distributing.  I gave them lots of problems similar 3 - (4x + 2) to emphasize that they would genuinely travel distributing a -1, non a 3 similar students oft assume.

In the side past times side column, nosotros carried out our distributing.

Then, inward my favorite column, nosotros took all of our damage in addition to seat them inward groups similar nosotros had with our cut-out term pieces the twenty-four hours before.  And, inward the in conclusion column, nosotros wrote our simplified answers.

When nosotros laid about dorsum on Monday, I desire to give students equations in addition to inequalities that own got parentheses in addition to damage to travel combined.  I genuinely desire to drive domicile the fact that nosotros tin exclusively combine damage that are on the same side of the equal sign or inequality symbol.  I nonetheless haven't decided how I desire to construction these notes/practice, though.  Something to intend close this weekend!  

Because nosotros had already talked close terms, constants, in addition to coefficients earlier starting this lesson, I intend my students were able to progress through this lesson much faster than my students did in conclusion year.  When nosotros reached the in conclusion column, unopen to of my students wanted to know why nosotros weren't solving for x.  I told them that nosotros could exclusively solve for x if nosotros had an equation or inequality.  It was awesome to run into unopen to lite bulbs acquire off inward that instant every bit they realized that nosotros had merely ended upwards with an expression!  Here's the weblog post I wrote close education students close terms, constants, in addition to coefficients.  

Files for these lessons are uploaded here.  Fonts are Londrina Solid, Comic Zine OT, Caviar Dreams, in addition to HVD Comic Serif Pro.  

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