Combining Like Terms
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Combining Like Terms
Combining like terms worksheet: twelve expressions such as 9a − 4 + 5a − 9 and 6(x + 9) + 8x to simplify, with one or two letters. Grades 6 and 7, with an answer key.
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Combining Like TermsA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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Write expressions with letters for numbers from words, name their parts, work out their value for given numbers, and write equivalent expressions by collecting like terms and using the distributive property.
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How to use this sheet
- Have the child replace each variable with its value in brackets before working anything out.
- For like terms, have the child circle the terms with the same variable in the same way.
- For the distributive property, draw arrows from the number outside to every term inside the brackets.
Common mistakes
- Reading 3x as 3 plus x, or as a two-digit number when x = 4, so 3x becomes 34. It is 3 × 4.
- Multiplying only the first term inside the brackets, so 2(x + 5) becomes 2x + 5.
- Combining unlike terms, so 3x + 2 becomes 5x.
