Simple Steps to Algebra (contains 37 worksheets)
The methods of using and working with pronumerals are introduced step by step and reinforced over and over again in a wide range of contexts.
OUTCOMES
Students understand: -
Algebra is a mathematical system that uses letters to stand for unknown values.
A pronumeral takes place of a numeral.
The meaning of the following terms:
coefficient, algebraic sentence called expression, like terms, unlike terms, to simplify an expression, simplifying by collecting, substitution, index number (indices) or exponent or power of.
The activities focus on: grouping like and unlike terms, the concept of pronumerals, simplifying like terms by adding, subtracting and multiplying, collecting like terms;, substitution of pronumerals by given numbers, writing like terms in expanded form using multiplication symbols.
