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Increase student engagement with this combining like terms and distributive property activity using individual whiteboards! This lesson includes animated Google Slides and a printable version.
This no-prep activity includes teacher directions, a review of combining like terms, 12 questions, and lesson slides. There is also a printable version that can be used with the slides if you don’t have a classroom set of individual whiteboards.
*Note: You can make a ‘whiteboard’ using any piece of paper and sheet protectors!*
How this lesson plan works:
- Review like terms (if necessary).
- Present each question on the board. Your students will solve the problem, then lift their whiteboard for immediate feedback.
- Float around the room to check in with students and quickly see what they do and don’t understand.
- Animated slides reveal each answer before moving on to the next question
This activity includes:
✅ 12 questions for combining like terms and distributive property
✅ Teacher directions
✅ Animated Google Slides with answer key
✅ Printable version with answer key
Ways to use this combining like terms activity in your Pre Algebra or Algebra 1 class:
Small group intervention – Choose 5-6 questions to assign to students in a small group. Your students will solve each problem on whiteboards (or on the worksheet), so that you can give them immediate feedback and targeted support. You can also use this as an opportunity to pre-teach vocabulary.
Guided practice – Students solve the problems on each slide and get immediate feedback from the teacher. This is a perfect formative assessment to check for student understanding.
Test review – Quickly and easily review for an upcoming equations and expressions test with this activity.
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