Mrs"MathATEE" 2015-2016: Chapter 6 Equations- One step

Good Evening Girls and Boys,

We are moving onward to a new chapter and that is on EQUATIONS. We will be looking at solving 1step equations! I bet you can hardly wait for this lesson..... First of all there are vocabulary terms that we will tackle as we need to be using these to sound like a mathematician! The first term is Equations. We have talked a great deal about these in prior lessons, but this whole chapter is about them. So equations are important and the gateway into algebra. Equations have an equal sign = that splits the math sentence into 2 parts. Both of these parts must remain equal or balanced at all times. That is your job to balance them using properties. Think of the sentence on a balance beam. You can take off or put on the same amounts on both sides to keep the sentence balanced. It sounds difficult, but it is fairly easy. The next term is Solution. Solutions are the answers. The next two terms are Addition and Subtraction Property of Equality. Don't those sound impressive! These 2 properties are what you use to balance the equations and solve for the unknown variable. Go through the videos and try to see where these properties come into play. We will go over these and you may fill in these after the worksheets are done.