Evaluating Expressions Interrogation Stack

Earlier this week, my Algebra 1 students took their mo quiz of the twelvemonth on evaluating expressions. They spent the showtime two-thirds of shape doing a do activeness I created as well as the concluding tertiary of shape taking their quizzes.

The activeness I created was a enquiry stack - i of my all fourth dimension favorite do structures! Students received a deck of 10 double-sided cards. One side of the bill of fare has an human face to evaluate as well as specifies what values you lot should substitute. The other side of the bill of fare has an answer, but it's an reply to a DIFFERENT question.

Students laid out yesteryear laying out all the cards alongside the answers facing up. This is the group's reply bank. Students flip over a unmarried card. This is the laid out of their "question stack" as well as their showtime enquiry to solve. After solving that question, students selection upwardly the corresponding enquiry bill of fare as well as house it on reach of the enquiry bill of fare they merely solved. The enquiry as well as reply should forthwith travel facing each other.

Now, students solve the novel enquiry as well as the procedure continues until they convey worked through all the cards. I dearest this activeness due to its self-checking nature. It lets me easily focus on which groups demand help. Students can't motility on until they figure out the answer. This way that they laid out helping each other, as well as they laid out genuinely bespeak for help! We purpose our dry out erase boards to operate out the problems which ever makes do a combat to a greater extent than fun.

Here's an event of what a bill of fare looks like:

And, here's the reply bank:

This was definitely a worthwhile do activity, as well as it's a must-do for the future.

This activeness was designed to align to the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Algebra 1. The touchstone is A1.A.3.4 Evaluate linear, absolute value, rational, as well as radical expressions. Include applying a non-standard operation.

There are no non-standard operations inwards this activeness because nosotros reviewed them the previous day. That didn't larn well, but that's about other storey for about other day!

Here's what the ii sides of the template for this activeness hold back like:

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These plough out to travel pretty slow activities to make. I made a particular template to brand my life fifty-fifty easier.

I've uploaded the file for the evaluating expressions activeness here. You tin also download the generic template here as a Publisher file.