Simplifying Expressions Lesson

Everything you need for teaching and learning: (1) Narrated lesson (2) Practice questions (3) Virtual manipulative (4) Challenging game

CONCEPTS LEARNED
1. Understand that expressions are simplified when replaced by equivalent expressions by combining all like terms and removing all parentheses
2. Learn to identify terms, like terms, and coefficients
3. Review and use the distributive property

FEATURES
Lesson with visual models and audio narration to make abstract concepts concrete
Questions to practice what was learned
Virtual manipulative for hands-on discovery learning
Game to interactively apply understanding
Alignment with state and Common Core standards
Suitable for ages 9-14