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Combining Like Terms Review Game
Combining Like Terms Review Game
Combining Like Terms Review Game
Combining Like Terms Review Game
Combining Like Terms Review Game
Combining Like Terms Review Game
Combining Like Terms Review Game
Combining Like Terms Review Game
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Description

Students will love combining like terms in this interactive game

supporting 7th and 8th grade math standards CCSS 7.EE.A.1 and CCSS 8.EE.C.7, TEKS 7.7A and TEKS 8.8A.

This game can be played with or without a SMART board or interactive whiteboard, or projector to practice combining like terms with increasing complexity, including using the distributive property and one find the error item. It can be downloaded to Google Slides.

This game is ideal for whole class review. It provides an opportunity for formative assessment, giving a look at what students know about combining like terms.

Teachers say that knockout review games are so fun, and they keep students engaged & on task.

What’s included:

  • A projectable game board that’s simple to use with an interactive whiteboard or other projector
  • Student scorecard. This printable scorecard is great for students to show their work and keep track of their progress in the game.
  • 16 questions. These questions have a range of difficulty, reflected in the points per question for students.
  • Random *bonus* options. Students may earn positive (or negative) bonuses during game play.

How it Works:

To play: 1) project the game screen on the front board and have students select one of the 16 icons.

 2) Then, a question will be presented for the whole class to solve. All students solve the problem, either on their printable scorecard with icons to keep track of questions, or you may want to use personal white boards instead. 

3) Click to reveal the correct answer 

4) Click on “back” to return to the game board. The icon for the question you just completed will disappear.

This game may be uploaded to Google Slides and played from there, but in Google Slides it does lose the feature of having already answered questions disappear (all other animations work in either version).

At the end of game play, collect students’ scorecards to see students' math work during the activity. There's just the right amount of healthy competition to make this math review game irresistible.

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Combining Like Terms Review Game

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Description

Students will love combining like terms in this interactive game

supporting 7th and 8th grade math standards CCSS 7.EE.A.1 and CCSS 8.EE.C.7, TEKS 7.7A and TEKS 8.8A.

This game can be played with or without a SMART board or interactive whiteboard, or projector to practice combining like terms with increasing complexity, including using the distributive property and one find the error item. It can be downloaded to Google Slides.

This game is ideal for whole class review. It provides an opportunity for formative assessment, giving a look at what students know about combining like terms.

Teachers say that knockout review games are so fun, and they keep students engaged & on task.

What’s included:

  • A projectable game board that’s simple to use with an interactive whiteboard or other projector
  • Student scorecard. This printable scorecard is great for students to show their work and keep track of their progress in the game.
  • 16 questions. These questions have a range of difficulty, reflected in the points per question for students.
  • Random *bonus* options. Students may earn positive (or negative) bonuses during game play.

How it Works:

To play: 1) project the game screen on the front board and have students select one of the 16 icons.

 2) Then, a question will be presented for the whole class to solve. All students solve the problem, either on their printable scorecard with icons to keep track of questions, or you may want to use personal white boards instead. 

3) Click to reveal the correct answer 

4) Click on “back” to return to the game board. The icon for the question you just completed will disappear.

This game may be uploaded to Google Slides and played from there, but in Google Slides it does lose the feature of having already answered questions disappear (all other animations work in either version).

At the end of game play, collect students’ scorecards to see students' math work during the activity. There's just the right amount of healthy competition to make this math review game irresistible.

Report this resource to TPT
Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates TPT's content guidelines.

Reviews

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Rated 4.86 out of 5, based on 136 reviews
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This was a fun game but didn't work for me as it described
Rated 4 out of 5
January 30, 2026
Met expectations
Great value
Standards-aligned
The only complaint I have is that when students picked a monster to solve, the monster didn't disappear and it made it so we had to remember which ones we had picked. Other than that, the game was fun, the expressions to simplify were varied in type so students got good experience simplifying a variety of problems and there were surprises throughout to keep them wondering what the monster was going to do. When the scorecard printed out, however, the monsters a long the bottom were partially printed because the margins were outside the printing margins.
Tracy M.
1 review
Grades taught: 7th, 8th
Student populations: Emerging bilinguals, Learning difficulties
Rated 5 out of 5
July 24, 2025
My students were very engaged with this resource! Thank you!
Angela Johnson
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821 reviews
Grades taught: 7th
Rated 4 out of 5
June 4, 2025
Fun practice! Kept students engaged while reinforcing skills.
Kristin F.
108 reviews
Grades taught: 7th
Student populations: Autism, Learning difficulties
Rated 5 out of 5
August 27, 2024
The KnockOut games are great for review and are a favorite activity for my students!
Kymia J.
439 reviews
Grades taught: 7th
Rated 5 out of 5
December 11, 2023
This was a very engaging way to review combining like terms with a little bit of distributive property mixed in. Students loved choosing the little characters to lead to a problem and earning points after questions. I loved that it was low prep and lets me check with in students as they are working. I regularly play Knockout games as a review with my students.
Kara R.
7 reviews
Grades taught: 7th
Rated 5 out of 5
April 26, 2023
This was such a fun game! My students even asked to play again the next day!
patricia B.
219 reviews
Grades taught: 7th
Rated 5 out of 5
April 4, 2023
Students love knock out games. We use a recording sheet and keep up with points and kids love it.
Crystal A.
123 reviews
Grades taught: 7th
Student populations: Learning difficulties
Rated 5 out of 5
November 22, 2022
My Math Worksop classes really had fun with this activity. Students were engaged and I was able to see where students needed more practice.
Judith S.
37 reviews
Grades taught: 8th

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients.
Give examples of linear equations in one variable with one solution, infinitely many solutions, or no solutions. Show which of these possibilities is the case by successively transforming the given equation into simpler forms, until an equivalent equation of the form 𝘹 = 𝘢, 𝘢 = 𝘢, or 𝘢 = 𝘣 results (where 𝘢 and 𝘣 are different numbers).
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