Comments Lab

Once students have learned about combining like terms, expressions, and distribution, this lesson will help solidify their knowledge by deconstructing expressions into two factors. This lesson reviews factors, how to find factors with variables, and allows students to discover a method to factoring an algebraic expression.

This interactive PowerPoint Lesson allows the students to discover how to solve one-step equations. Using number tiles, word problems, and fun pictures, the students will be able to recognize when to add or subtract to isolate the variable. Although built as a stand alone lesson, this PowerPoint pairs well with the Big Ideas book, Lesson 3.2 - Solving One-Step Equations Using Addition and Subtraction.

This powerpoint models the distributive property and how it relates to decomposing numbers. It can be used with McDougal Littell Lesson 2.1 but is also a stand alone lesson. The 14 slides include fill in the blanks, definitions, real-world modeling, and an exit ticket.

This interactive powerpoint presentation includes guided demonstrations to lead students to subtract integers using integer counters and number lines. There are multiple practice problems for students of all ranges of ability.

This interactive 11 slide PowerPoint uses animations and number lines to model the skill of subtracting integers. This goes along with, but is not limited to, the McDougal Littell Pre-Algebra textbook lesson 1.6. Activities include modeling word problems, use number lines, substituting, and each student creating their own word problem. It finishes with an exit ticket.