Pre-Algebra Lesson 14 Objectives

1. Combining like terms 2. Solving equations with variables on both sides 3. Solving equations with parentheses

Materials and Handouts 1. Like terms Rummy cards

Go over homework 5-10 1. Have them work on the do now while I grade their homework minutes

Homework

2. Discuss any mistakes or difficulties they had. 3. Go over the do now EXTENSIVELY because this shows whether or not theyre able to go from the concrete weight examples to the algebra Instruction on Adding like terms 10 1. Warm up: minutes a. Pretend youre a zoo keeper. You have a pen full of 5 tigers and a separate pen full of 8 elephants. You get a shipment in of (4tigers+3elephants). How should we describe how many animals youre taking care of right now? b. Pretend youre an astronaut and youve gone a new planet. You decide to call the animals there by letters instead of names because heck, youre not a biologist and you dont want to deal with fancy shmancy Latin. You capture s and s and s and lock them in a pen to study them. The next day, you find s, and s, but unfortunately, s have escaped. Write an expression to represent how many animals youre taking care of now. 2. Go over the vocab: a. Term: Any separate clump of numbers and variables all multiplied together. b. Coefficient: a number in front of a term that indicates how many of that term there are (yes, you think of it right now as multiplication, but discuss what multiplication is- its repeated addition.) c. Like term: When terms have the same variable or same combination of variables. 3. If like terms are added (or subtracted) together, we can just count up how many there are and turn them into a new term: a. b. c. d. 4. If there are different types of terms being added together, mark the like terms by putting different symbols around them. Make sure to include the sign in front of each like term. a. b. c. d. Play like terms rummy. Rules on back page 10

minutes Solving multistep equations 10 1. Explain that now they know both combining like terms and the distributive property, minutes
we can solve much more complex equations. 2. Just before you solve an equation simplify both sides as much as possible by a. Distributing to get rid of parentheses b. Combining like terms. 3. Do the example problems with them.

Like Terms (a math card game)

Like Terms is a game where the objective is to collect as many groups of 3 or 4 like terms as possible and then being the first person with no cards left in their hand. The deck contains 7 groups of cards: , a to , to and so on for , , , and 1-9.

How to Play
Each player gets 7 cards. There is a draw pile face down and discard pile face up. Players try to make groups of 3 or 4 cards that are like termsfor example, if you had , and in your hand, you would place those cards face up on the table in front of you. 4. For each turn, the player takes 1 card from the draw pile, makes their play (if they can) and throws one card away. 5. The object of the game is to be the first with no cards left.
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What is a group of Like Terms?

Cards with only go with other cards, but not with cards. cards only go with other cards, and only with other cards. The same goes for cards, and cards. The number cards without a square root can only be added to each other Like terms (you CAN play): , and Unlike terms (CAN'T play): , 6 , and 5

How do you figure out your score?

The winner gets to add every group they put down on the table. For example, if you had:

8 2 4

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You would add up each group for your score: 15 + 16 + 9 + 7

The rest of the players will add whatever they put on the table, but then subtract everything still left in their hand. For example, if you had: On table: In your hand:

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Your score would be 24 2 3 11.

Pre-Algebra Lesson 14

Name:_______________ Date:_________

Like terms and Multi-Step Equation Solving Class Work

Do Now: (1) Solve the following equations by thinking about a balance puzzle. a. c.

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(2) Solve the following equations. Think about the fact that with a balance puzzle, we removed extra weight. So if weight has been removed, we should probably add it back on. a. b.

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Adding Like Terms (1) Warm up: a. Pretend youre a zoo keeper. You have a pen full of 5 tigers and a separate pen full of 8 elephants. You get a shipment in of (4tigers+3elephants). How should we describe how many animals youre taking care of right now?

b. Pretend youre an astronaut and youve gone a new planet. You decide to call the animals there by letters instead of names because heck, youre not a biologist and you dont want to deal with fancy shmancy Latin. You capture lock them in a pen to study them. The next day, you find unfortunately, youre taking care of now. s and s, and s and s, but s and

s have escaped. Write an expression to represent how many animals

(2) Define the following vocab: a. Term: _______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ b. Coefficient: ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ c. Like term: ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ (3) If like terms are added (or subtracted) together, we can just count up how many there are and turn them into a new term: a. b. c.

(4) If there are different types of terms being added together, mark the like terms by putting different symbols around them. Make sure to include the sign in front of each like term. a. c.

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Like Terms Rummy GAME 1 ADD (each group you put on the table): GAME 2 ADD (each group you put on the table):

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SUBTRACT (what's left in your hand):

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SCORE 1: __________________________________

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Solving Multi-Step Equations: (1) When solving Multi-Step equations, you should always first: a. ___________________________________________________ b. ___________________________________________________ (2) Lets solve the following problems together. ALWAYS CHECK ANSWERS! a. ( ) c. ( ) ( )

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(3) If theres a subtraction sign in front of parentheses, life gets a little more complicated. Consider ( ) the expression a. Simplify the above expression using Order of operations. b. Simplify the above expression by subtracting 10 from 63, then subtracting 3. c. Is it true that ( ) ?

(4) Lets use this to solve more equations! ( ) a.

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Pre-Algebra Lesson 14

Name:_______________ Date:_________

Like terms and Multi-Step Equation Solving Homework

Find your way through the maze below by solving each equation, then choosing the path with the

correct solution. Show calculations and work below.