This product helps 7th and 8th grade teachers explore and explain the process of combining like terms- sometimes reffered in my project, as "families." The first page explores using algebra tiles (either yours or a printed version of mine) to demonstrate, then draw combinations of the terms. The second page offers written notes on how to combine like terms without the algebra tiles using the signed coefficients (it also has negative coefficients). Feel free to edit the document if you only desir