Simplifying Polynomials Teacher Resources

Sometimes simplifying expressions is as simple as combining like terms. Help your pupils build the important skill using a video presentation. After defining like terms, the instructor completes a series of examples, which progress from...

Adding two polynomials begins with simplifying when possible. Sal demonstrates the process he uses to combine like terms and explains why the process works. This video would be great for those who need a quick refresher.

Merge two important algebraic skills to simplify polynomial expressions. A thorough video lesson describes the process of distributing and combining like terms to simplify an expression. Examples show how to distribute one or two...

In this instructional activity, algebra learners solve and complete 20 different equations that include combining like terms. First, they identify and define like terms and how they can be combined in solving an equation. Then, students...

Everyone loves math when it includes food! This lesson tries to take the notion of combining like terms in algebra and comparing it to sorting apples and oranges. It takes a step-by-step approach to helping students understand this...

Combine terms to help simplify. An introduction of like terms starts the discussion on simplifying polynomials. Playing the game "like terms or not like terms" soldifies the concept of like terms. The video shows how individuals can...

Do your pupils confuse multiplying variables terms with adding variable terms? A video presentation uses factoring to isolate the coefficients of the like terms before combining, emphasizing the difference between addition and...

To subtract two polynomials Sal demonstrates that you add the opposite of the second term, and then combine like terms to solve. How do you find an opposite term? Simply multiply the polynomial by -1. This video is very clearly explained...

At times, polynomial expressions can be very long. Watch this video to see how Sal simplifies them by combining like terms. He explains his process and uses various colors to demonstrate why like terms are alike and why they can be...

How the heck do you subtract polynomials? Well, watch the instructor and listen closely as she explains just what to do to subtract polynomials.

Apply the distributive property to multiply a monomial times a polynomial to get the area of a rectangle. Then use this information to solve a word problem.

This overview of polynomial operations does a solid job of summarizing how a mathematician attacks adding, subtracting, and multiplying polynomials. With particular emphasis on combining like terms and when exponents do and do not...

Without ever relying on the FOIL trick, this presentation carefully walks young algebrists through multiplying binomials by a monomial and by each other. Examples start easy, but move into complicated pairings of coefficients, positives...

What makes terms like terms? Individuals explore the question as they view the video presentation. The lesson first models classifying like terms. The instructor goes on to demonstrate combining like terms in polynomial expressions of...

This worksheet first reviews the definition of a polynomial and a like term. Then learners use the distributive property to rewrite expressions where polynomials are multiplied by monomials. Finally they are introduced to both the FOIL...

It's not a complicated word problem, but the picture frame just gives the problem a little context. So you are trying to find the difference, which means subtraction. The instructor reviews how to distribute the negative sign to the...

Yes, it's a real-world word problem, but it's as easy as multiplying a monomial and a polynomial. Then all you have to do is to make sure you write it in simplest form.

In this polynomials activity, students solve and complete 20 different problems that include multiplication. First, they multiply the first terms of each binomial. Then, students multiply the outside terms and then the inside terms. They...

Bring closure to the addition of polynomials. Pupils add two polynomials in two problems. They use what they know to determine whether adding two polynomials always results in a polynomial.

Need a unique approach to adding and subtracting polynomials? A helpful math lesson approaches the concept by relating polynomials to base 10. It encourages pupils to see each term as having a specific value, and therefore, they should...

So you want to learn how to add polynomials? Here are the steps: rewrite by removing the parentheses, identify the like terms, group like terms together, combine the like terms, and finally rewrite the simplified expression.

Familiarize young mathematicians with the radical concept of square roots using this set of skills practice problems. Building on prior knowledge about combining like terms in algebraic expressions, this worksheet helps students learn...

Young scholars investigate the concept of adding and subtracting polynomials. They put terms in the correct order in order to solve them vertically. They simplify first with combining like terms and then conducting the calculations. The...