Math Equals Fun

If your students are anything like mine, there are plenty that will have a difficult time picking up all the "rules" of solving equations. My students in particular get especially confused when they start solving before they've simplified both sides–they get through the distribution just fine, but then they just don't know what to do with all those extra terms! Most of the time they just start moving terms around from one side to the other which results in extra steps and opportunities for mista