Handouts

eq-vs-id.pdf vis-alg-2016.pdf

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The Lab Gear manipulatives help students transition from numbers to variables, and from the concrete to the abstract, through activities that promote an understanding of operations: the distributive law, combining like terms, factoring, and so on. This is a necessary prerequisite to understanding equivalent expressions, a key concept in middle school.

 

Presentation Format: 6-8 Workshop