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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 ...

Want to help your sixth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your sixth-grader will be learning in the classroom. In a herd of horses, the ratio of legs to tails is 4 to 1 (or 4:1) because ...

1 Doctoral Program in Mathematics Education, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. 2 Mathematics Education Program, Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. The objective ...

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 ...

This article reports results from a study investigating the impact of a sustained, comprehensive early algebra intervention in third grade. Participants included 106 students; 39 received the early ...