National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Business Management and Administration: Compound Interest - A Millionaire's Best Friend
Many math concepts are covered through this resource: percentages, decimals, ratios, exponential functions, graphing, rounding, order of operations, estimation, and solving equations. Colorful worksheets and a link to a Google search for...
Curated OER
Comparing Investments
Money, money, money. A complete lesson that makes use of different representations of simple and compound interest, including written scenarios, tables, graphs, and equations to highlight similarities and differences between linear and...
Curated OER
Systems of Equations and Inequalities
This is a comprehensive lesson on creating and solving equations and systems of equations and inequalities. Problems range from basic linear equations to more complex systems of equations and inequalities based on a real-world examples....
Texas Instraments
Getting Started Dilemma
Get out those thinking caps and apply graphing functions to a real-world problem. Use the TI-83 graphing calculator to evaluate algebraic expressions that are imbedded in a series of real-world scenarios. A great activity!
EngageNY
Completing the Square (part 2)
Give classes confidence in completing the square with a resource that develops the process of completing the square of more complex problems, including fractions and values greater than one. It then uses quadratic modeling for profit and...
EngageNY
Advanced Factoring Strategies for Quadratic Expressions (part 2)
What do you do with a difficult-to-factor quadratic expression? This lesson provides the answer. Pupils learn a grouping strategy to help factor trinomials. When guess and check seems too tedious, this method is the "works every time"...
BW Walch
Linear & Exponential Functions
Positioned inside the framework of linear and exponential functions, this lesson is more of an investigation into the effects of changing variables and constants inside an expression. The author takes familiar formulas, those for...
Curated OER
The Bank Account
Your algebra learners become bankers for a day as they explore compounding interest and the formula used to calculate the balance in a savings account. Questions guide the learners as they analyze the formula's parts and their connection...
Curated OER
Translate Word Phrases and Sentences into Equations
Use this video to show your learners an example of how to translate word phrases into an equation to solve a real-world problem. The presenter begins with a review of how to use cross products to solve a proportion, including how to do...
Curated OER
Polynomials: Factors, Roots and Zeroes
Students factor polynomial equations. In this algebra lesson, students identify the zeros of the equations. They use algebra to rewrite word problems using symbols.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Simplifying Algebraic Expressions
This tutorial offers definitions, examples, and practice problems for looking at various components of terms and for simplifying algebraic expressions.
Quia
Quia: Evaluating Algebraic Expression
This interactive game is similar to Concentration. Students must evaluate the expression in the puzzle for the given value and match it with the correct answer.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Simplifying Polynomial Expressions
Given verbal and symbolic representations of polynomial expressions, the student will simplify the expression.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Algebraic Expressions
Twenty-six problems cover a variety of topics applied to writing, simplifying, solving and evaluating algebraic expressions. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Rational Expressions
Rational expressions are examined in this mathematics resource. The notes consist of detailed explanations and examples.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Algebra 1: Semester Ii: Rational Expressions
A learning module through which students learn about rational expressions including inverse relationships, multiplying and dividing rations expressions, adding and subtracting rational expressions, solving rational equations, and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Color This Polynomial Simplified
This lesson plan walks students through the process of simplifying polynomials by combining like terms. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Simplifying Rational Expressions
Learn more about rational expressions by understanding how to simplify rational expressions step-by-step along with some solved examples and a few interactive questions to test your understanding.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Variable Expressions
A comprehensive guide for learning all about variable expressions with definitions, types of variable expressions, solved examples, and practice questions.
Other
Quick Math: Simplify Expressions
This QuickMath resource is about how to simplify expressions. These include steps, tips and examples.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Evaluating Expressions
Get independent practice evaluating expressions for a given variable value. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Simplifying Expressions
Like terms have the same degree variable or are constants. When solving an equation or inequality, like terms must be combined. Knowledge of variable expressions and equations assists in solving problems involving logic.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: First Degree Monomials and Binomials
Students will apply basic operations to monomial and binomial expressions after recognizing the characteristics of polynomials.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Introduction to Variable Expressions
A tutorial that covers evaluating and simplifying different types of expressions. Find definitions and examples of exponential notation, order of operations, variables, and algebraic expressions, and complete practice exercises through...