Algebra I Lesson: Combining Like Terms has all the materials you need to successfully teach your students to simplify expressions by combining like terms. This version comes in a PDF file for those with projectors but not a SmartBoard. (If you do have SmartNotebook, take a look at my SNB version.)

Pages include:
1) Teacher Resources: Objective and Common Core Connection
2) Bellringer Activity: Mental Prep for Lesson
3) Vocabulary: Know and Use these Terms
4-5) Direct Instruction: Examples for Explanation and Modeling
6) Guided Practice: A Few Questions to Work Through Together
7) Additional Practice Problems
8) Closure: Recap Key Material
9-13) Teacher’s Key

Within the product I provide small teaching suggestions as well as an answer key for all problems in the presentation. Feel free to modify this lesson as you please to best suite your students and your individual teaching style. Download the preview for a look at the style and set up of this lesson plan.

As a supplement to instruction, you may want to take a look at my cooperative learning activities on combining like terms.


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Muriel Watson