For some students, learning algebraic expressions feels like drudgery, but it doesn’t have to be that way. These three activities will get your students moving, talking, and thinking deeply about ...

This interactive pan balance allows numeric or algebraic expressions to be entered and compared. You can "weigh" the expressions you want to compare by entering them on either side of the balance.

Students of Grade 7 were given a test followed by individual interviews; at the end of Grade 8 the same students were subject to an analogous test and interviews. Each student had to simplify certain ...

To remove brackets is to multiply the term outside the brackets by each term inside. Factorising an expression is to write it as a product of its factors. Check your understanding of the process with ...

This free simplifying algebraic expressions lesson plan for KS3 comes with an accompanying task sheet. Exercises are not the only way to improve students’ fluency in mathematical procedures. Sometimes ...