PBS
Career Connections | Pipefitting and Plumbing
Getting water to the drinking fountain and getting waste out of a building are just two jobs for pipefitters and plumbers. A short video details the education and training involved in this rewarding, hands-on career.
Mathispower4u
Simplify and Evaluate Algebraic Expressions 2
These are equivalent, too. The resource presents two expressions to simplify that require using the distributive property and/or combining like terms. After simplifying the expressions, the video shows how to evaluate the expressions to...
Mathispower4u
Simplify Algebraic Expressions (Basic)
To simplify or not to simplify, what should scholars do? Using several examples, the video works through the process of simplifying algebraic expressions. The resource restricts simplification to using the distributive property and to...
Mathispower4u
Write and Simplify a Variable Expression for Age (ax+b)
Age is just a number. The resource develops a multi-step expression to represent a person's age. Using the video, the presenter creates expressions for the age of four different people that build upon each other. The final age requires...
Mathispower4u
Simplify and Evaluate Algebraic Expressions 1
Evaluate the equivalence of expressions. A helpful video walks through the process of simplifying two expressions. Using values for the variables, the presentation evaluates the original expression and the simplified expression to show...
Mathispower4u
Using the Distributive Property to Multiply Quickly
Can the distributive property help solve complex multiplication when you can't find a calculator? Yes, as a matter of fact, it can! Using addition, subtraction, and area models, the speaker explains how to simplify these problems and...
Mathispower4u
The Distributive Property with Negative Integers
Just over one third of all adults struggle when performing math operations with negative numbers. Addressing these skills early and often prevents these challenges later in life. Through multiple examples, worked step by step, viewers...
Mathispower4u
Introduction to the Distributive Property
Who needs parentheses, anyway? Understanding how to apply the distributive property—and how to get rid of parentheses—helps scholars conceptually understand why it is necessary. Guided practice problems help build confidence to create...
FuseSchool
Factorising Expressions - Single Brackets
Use common factors to simplify expressions. The resource introduces factoring out the greatest common factor to simplify algebraic expressions. Worked examples include basic linear with numerical common factors to expressions that have...
Math Antics
The Distributive Property
The distributive property works both ways. Connecting the distributive property from arithmetic to algebra, the resource shows how it works with variables too. The video provides examples of using the distributive property with a factor...
Krista King Math
Like Terms, Addition and Subtraction
It is not good enough to have the same variable, they must have the same exponents too. The video introduces the class to like terms, while giving the definition of like terms and providing examples of combining like terms through addition.
Krista King Math
Distributive Property, Fractions
Does the distributive property work the same with fractions? The short video provides examples of the distributive property using algebraic fractions. The resource provides two examples of distributing fractions over sums also involving...
Art of Problem Solving
Distributive Property
Here is a video that makes individuals feel comfortable with working with the distributive property.
Krista King Math
Inverse Operations
Demonstrate the important concept of inverse operations through an engaging video tutorial. The narrator explains that creating an understanding of inverse operations is essential to solving equations. The video also looks...
Math TV
Math tv.com: Simplifying Expressions: With Numbers Only
Learn how to use order of operations to simplify expressions. Several videos, featuring a math teacher and students, offer step-by-step instruction on how to simplify expressions that only involve numbers.
Math TV
Math tv.com: Simplifying Expressions: With Variables
Learn how to simplify expressions that have variables. This site offers a variety of video lessons, from a teacher and several students, showing step-by-step solutions to twenty-four different expressions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arithmetic and Pre Algebra: Distributive Property Example 1
This video provides several examples of using the distributive properties of multiplication and division to rewrite expressions. Practice problems are available. [5:39]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arithmetic and Pre Algebra: Level 2 Exponents
This video explains the meaning of negative exponents. Practice problems are available. [6:26]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra: Exponent Properties 5
Video lesson introducing the power of a product rule and using it to simplify an algebraic expression. [2:50]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arithmetic and Pre Algebra: Level 1 Exponents
A video explaining the meaning of exponents and exponential notation. Practice problems are available. [9:46]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arithmetic and Pre Algebra: Level 3 Exponents
Video explains the meaning of fractional exponents and negative fractional exponents. Practice problems are available. [9:12]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra: Exponent Properties 6
Video lesson introducing the power of a quotient rule and using it in conjunction with the power of a product and power of a power rules to simplify an algebraic expression. [4:19]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra: Exponent Properties 7
Video simplifying an algebraic expression using various rules of exponents. [4:51]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra: Negative and Positive Exponents
Video simplifying an algebraic expression with negative exponents and then evaluating it when x equals 2. [2:19]