BBC
Bbc: Manipulation of Aglebraic Expressions
Pick up some valuable pointers on how to simplify and factor algebraic expressions. When you finish working your way through the pages, you can take an online "Test Bite" and check your understanding.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Sum of Even and Odd
In this task, young scholars use the structure of an expression to find ways to rewrite it. They are asked to use the defining property of even and odd functions to manipulate expressions involving function notation and to see the...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Exploring Expressions and Equations
Teaching unit allows students to develop key skills in expressions and equations while learning the value of these concepts through the lens of adventure sports.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Evaluating Expressions With Variables Word Problems
Practice plugging in values to evaluate real-world algebraic expressions. These are introductory problems, so the expressions aren't too complicated. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Algebraic Expression
This resource helps with understanding the concept of variables, constants, terms, and coefficients of any algebraic expression. Learn how to simplify algebraic expressions using algebraic formulas and the different types of expressions.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b: Taxes and Sales
This task is not about computing the final price of the shirt but about using the structure in the computation to make a general argument. Aligns with A-SSE.B.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Seeing Dots
The purpose of this task is to identify the structure in the two algebraic expressions by interpreting them in terms of a geometric context, a series of squares filled with dot arrangements. Learners are asked to notice a pattern and...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Mixing Fertilizer
A landscaping company prepares two mixtures of fertilizer. In this task, students investigate what happens to the value of an expression when a quantity is changed. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Delivery Trucks: Assessment Variation
This is an assessment task that has students look for structure in algebraic expressions related to the context of trucks delivering concrete blocks and asks them to relate that structure to the context. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Delivery Trucks
This task asks learners to analyze four expressions to determine what each represents in terms of the problem's context, which is about two trucks delivering different amounts of sand in different numbers of trips. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Kitchen Floor Tiles
The purpose of this task about tiling a kitchen floor is to give learners practice in reading, analyzing, and constructing algebraic expressions, attending to the relationship between the form of an expression and the context from which...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse the Physics Professor
In this task, students are asked to study the structure of an algebraic expression, draw conclusions, and explain their thinking. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Mixing Candies
This task about a box of chocolates has students use the given equations to answer questions about weight and price, as well as interpret the expressions in the equations. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.a.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Radius of a Cylinder
Given the height and volume of a certain cylinder, Jill uses the volume formula to compute its radius. If a second cylinder has the same volume as the first, but is 100 times taller, what is its radius? Aligns with A-SSE.A.1.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Throwing Horseshoes
This task about the height of a horseshoe in flight requires students to identify expressions as sums or products and interpret each summand or factor. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Stressed to the Breaking Point Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Students explore how much weight a spaghetti bridge can support and whether width and length matter. Printable lesson.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Algebra: Targeted Math Instruction
This Algebra lesson focuses on writing algebraic expressions to represent real-world problems, using the properties of numbers to simplify expressions, and evaluating equations by isolating the variable.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Apr Egyptian Fractions Ii
In this task, learners will rewrite fractions as a sum of distinct unit fractions. To solve the problem, students will rewrite a simple rational expression and will need to study the arithmetic of these unit fractions with a variable in...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Simplifying With Parentheses
Explains, with worked examples, how to simplify expressions which involve parentheses and variables, including how to take a negative through the parentheses.