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A set of four practice sheets on solving multi-step equations. Students will complete these worksheets in groups of four. Teacher instructions are enclosed.
Students will use a variety of different size squares to form right triangles. After recording the lengths of the sides, students will square the values and look for the relationship.
This worksheet leads students to discover the differences between linear equations and identities. The well formulated questions force students to employ critical thinking.
Before algebra students can be expected to understand traditional "word problems," they need experience using algebra as a language, i.e. writing algebraic expressions and equations.
The lesson begins with the definition of an algebraic fraction and then a quick review of the fundamental principle of fractions.
Beginning with the definition of a polynomial, polynomial multiplication and degree of polynomial products are introduced.
This lesson focuses on finding appropriate non linear functions to model real world phenomena.

To motivate the convention for negative and zero exponents, the lesson begins by observing the halving pattern found in continuously decreasing the exponent of a power of two by one.

Exponential notation for $n$th roots and radicals is introduced.

Using Kleiber's rule- which linked an animals metabolic rate to its mass- to motivate working with rational exponents, this lesson begins by linking work with $n$th roots from the last le