Shmoop: Basic Algebra: Solving Equations With Variables on Both Sides

Where did all these variables come from, anyway? The previous lessons in the series ask learners to solve multi-step equations using the distributive property, combining like terms, and using inverse operations. Now scholars solve...

So many different ways to solve equations, so little time! Scholars learn how to solve equations with variables on both sides by using several different methods. They apply bar models, decomposition, and traditional algebraic methods to...

Challenge your mathematicians to simplify and solve a variety of different equations. This worksheet focuses on multi-step problems that begin with combining like terms and advance toward solving equations with variables on both sides. A...

Solving equations is the groundwork for all of algebra. A video presentation explains the steps for solving an equation with variables on both sides. Using a different color for each step, the instructor shows how to manipulate the...

So you have a variable on both sides of the equation. How do you solve this kind of equation? Just get like terms together on each side of the equation and then isolate that variable.

A video that demonstrates how to solve equations with variables on both sides. The first two examples give the equation and the third example is a word problem in which an equation must be written and then solved. This video is also...

Demonstrate the steps of solving linear equations—this time with variables on both sides! A video presentation completes several examples with binomials on each side of the equation. Learners then complete the included practice...

Fractions and variables on both sides of the equation? Oh my! There are one hundred and one steps to solving this equation. Not really, but now that I have your attention, I recommend you watch this video closely and follow the...

So you have a variable on both sides of the equation. How do you solve this kind of equation? Just get like terms together on each side of the equation and then isolate that variable.

Twenty-seven problems present a variety of practice solving equations with variables on both sides. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View...