FACTORING WITH THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY - AKA BACKWARDS DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY

On our path to making sure we can identify and create equivalent expressions we had to first make sure we can undo the distributive property. Here is a copy of a students notebook.

You might notice the words numbered 1 through 14. I wrote the definition that I needed students to learn on a set of note cards. One word per card, I handed them out all around the room. Told everyone to number their paper to 14. Students then read their cards and everyone tried to write down words as they heard them, we did this probably 10 times sometimes slow and sometimes fast to see how well we can listen (been a real problem lately). I then shared the message in paragraph form for those who had missed out on some of the words. Then following the paragraph were a few bullets of helpful information.