Category Archives: Math Concepts

Assignment: 01-Compare and Order Decimals A decimal is considered any number that uses a decimal point. Examples:  3.75, 21.6, 0.45, 5.76 Any of the numbers to the right side of the decimal represent only a part of a whole.  If the … Continue reading →

Assignment 1: 09-Solving Equations Assignment 2: 13-Solving Equations Review Assignment 3: 08-2-Solving Equations Review2 Assignment 4: 01-Solving Equations Practice Task: Equations Maze These lessons take everything we’ve done for the past few lessons and puts it all together.  We can take a story problem and … Continue reading →

Assignment: 08-Writing an Equation The idea behind this lesson is to get us a little more familiar with story problems.  We need to be able to take the information in the story problem and turn it into the expression and equations … Continue reading →

Assignment 1: Problem Solving Assignment 2: 13-Problem Solving Practice Assignment 3: 09-Problem Solving2 One of the most helpful problem solving techniques we will use all use is known as RICE.  It’s an acronym that helps them to remember the steps to take when … Continue reading →

Assignments: 12-Combining Like Terms Combining Like Terms is a process used to simplify an expression or an equation using addition and subtraction of the coefficients of terms. Consider the expression 5 + 7. By adding 5 and 7, you can easily find that … Continue reading →

Assignment: 06-Properties of Equality This lesson takes a closer look at that word equal and what it really means.  We can think of an equation much like you would a scale where the middle of the scale is the equal sign. … Continue reading →

Assignment 1: 07-Variables and Expressions Assignment 2: Words to Expressions 2 (front); Words to Expressions 3 (back) This lesson has to do with the taking expressions from words into number form.  A lot of the vocabulary from the previous lesson comes into play here because … Continue reading →

Assignment: 11-Parts of a Mathematical Expression To begin, knowing the parts of an expression is very heavy in knowing the vocabulary.  Here is a list of the necessary vocab words with definitions. addend - the numbers added in an addition problem’ 5 + 6 = 11 … Continue reading →

Assignment: 10-Using Formulas Formulas are equations that show the way quantities relate to one another.  We most commonly see these when shopping.  Fruits and vegetables are going to be so much per pound, so you would use the formula cost = unit … Continue reading →

Assignment 1: 04-Properties of Operations Assignment 2: 05-Distributive Property The mathematical properties tell us things that are true under any situation.  There are four of them we will be dealing with this year, but we will certainly be putting the most focus … Continue reading →