COMBINING LIKE TERMS & DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY

   

We have been working on simplifying algebraic expressions in class. For this activity we walked around the room and marked the like terms to help us use the commutative property to rearrange the expressions. The students then showed that they could simplify the expressions. 

For another practice, students were chosen at random to come to the smart board to mark the like terms, afterward they simplified the expression in their math notebook

The last thing we discussed was the Distributive Property,

For a quick formative assessments before class ended, the students answered the following questions.