I'm lucky enough to have a math paraprofessional push into my first period Intro to Algebra class almost every day. Seriously, she's the best. It's awesome to have another adult in the room to bounce ideas off of, model with and eventually have small groups with. On Friday she mentioned that she noticed that not only my students but students in other classes, grades and with other teachers continually struggle with the definitions of evaluate, simplify and solve. And let's be honest here, do we blame them? We're using interactive notebooks this year and we thought of putting a reference page in it. I tweeted the #MTBos and asked for help and then started scouring the internet for an INB page that would be helpful. No luck. I decided to create my own. Here's what I came up with. I don't have much experience with Publisher so I downloaded math=love's page for expression, equation and inequality (find her post about that here) and used that template. Since I want this to be a quick review, I added in the definitions and the students and I will come up with examples in class.
I'm not in love with the definition I found for simplify (the word condense is what's off for me) but I think it'll work for a quick review. The editable publisher file and non-editable PDF files are linked here.
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