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Unit 0 Pre Algebra Review

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Cover of Algebra Unit 0 - Pre-Algebra Review Student Notes, shown with a graphing calculator, pencil and eraser
Front page for the student notes packet
Contents listing five lessons: verbal phrases, square roots and absolute value, properties, evaluating, combining terms
Overview of the five days of notes
Day 1 notes defining variables; students translate subtraction key words like 'less than' and 'from' into expressions
Guided notes to flag the 'tricky phrases' in word problems
Addition, multiplication and division key words with phrases to translate; students also write inequality symbols for words
Reference table students complete during the lesson
Translating algebra to English: students write inequalities like 17 ≤ 26 in words and turn phrases into equations
Two-way translation practice: symbols to words and back
Exponential notation: students fill in the terms for a and n in aⁿ, then write 7², 5³, 9⁴ and 12⁵ as English phrases
Short exponent vocabulary check
Day 2 squares and square roots: students fill in squares of 1 to 15, simplify 5², 13² and 7², and read radical notation
Builds the perfect-squares list before square roots
Square root practice: students find roots of perfect squares from 1 to 225 and simplify positive and negative radicals
Practice with the negative square root sign
Absolute value notes: students complete the definition and simplify |3|, |−44|, |0| and |28|
Quick notes and check on distance from zero
Day 3 order of operations notes with 'Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally'; students simplify 4 + 3 · 7 and (4 + 3) · 7
Shows why grouping symbols change the answer
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Algebra, Math

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I've been teaching math in Missouri for over 30 years and I specialize in teaching Algebra concepts to struggling students.

Unit 0 Pre Algebra Review is designed for grades 7 - 12 to review their pre-algebra knowledge prior to learning Algebra 1 concepts.

Objectives:

  1. Translate Verbal Phrases into Algebraic Expressions

  2. Calculate Square Roots and Absolute Values

  3. Simplify Expressions Using Properties of Real Numbers

  4. Evaluate Expressions

  5. Use Distributive Property and Combine Like Terms

I use a simple, straight forward approach to notes that are meant to go along with my videos

I have teacher and student guided notes available for every unit.

Topics covered in Algebra 1:

Unit 0 Pre Algebra Review

Unit 1 Solving Linear Equations and Inequalities

Unit 2A Graphing Linear Equations

Unit 2B Graphing Linear Inequalities

Unit 2C Systems of Equations and Inequalities

Unit 3 Functions

Unit 4A Polynomials

Unit 4B Factoring

Unit 5 Quadratics

Unit 6 Statistics

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