For some students, learning algebraic expressions feels like drudgery, but it doesn’t have to be that way. These three activities will get your students moving, talking, and thinking deeply about ...

This is a 20 question settler activity for KS3 or KS4. There are four different versions, each containing the same questions but arranged in a different order. Students factorise the 20 expressions, ...

1 Doctoral Program in Mathematics Education, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. 2 Mathematics Education Program, Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. The objective ...

Unpicking the workings of a numerical trick allows students to put their algebra skills to use in this free GCSE algebra lesson plan… To many students, GCSE algebra is a morass of letters, numbers and ...

In algebra, letters are used when numbers are not known. Algebraic terms, such as \(2s\) or \(8y\), leave the multiplication signs out. So rather than \(2 \times s\), write \(2s\), and rather than \(8 ...

In algebra, letters are used to stand for values that can change (variables) or for values that are not known (unknowns). A term is a number or letter on its own, or numbers and letters multiplied ...

Algebraic expressions are an essential topic in the mathematics curriculum as they are interrelated in the application of problem-solving in science and mathematics. Previous studies showed that most ...

When it comes to teaching Algebra I, Professor Jon Star believes it is not just what students are learning — as far as formulas and equations — but how they are exploring multiple explanations and ...

The United States is one of the only countries in the world that is teaching courses with names like Algebra I or Algebra II. The rest of the world, including our colleagues in Canada, teach ...