Students are ready to use the commutative property and their knowledge of like terms to simplify algebraic expressions.
Saturday, November 21, 2015
M&M's and LIKE TERMS
To help the kiddos truly understand like terms I used M&M's. All students were given a plate and a cup of M&M's. Students were told to sort their candy, some asked how and I did not give any advice. 99% of the kids sorted their candy by color. On the plate students were told to write about how they sorted the candy. This was also a practice in writing short response answers. Below is an example of the activity.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
11/19/2015 HOMEWORK
1.) Choose all your favorite colors
2.) Assign a color to a term, then find all the terms that are "like" it
3.) Choose another term and another color.
4.) Complete the worksheet.
5.) All boxes will be colored
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
PROPERTIES
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| ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTY OF MULTIPLICATION |
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| DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY |
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| COMMUTATIVE PROPERTY OF ADDITION |
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| ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTY OF ADDITION |
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| DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY |
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| COMMUTATIVE PROPERTY OF MULTIPLICATION |
