Operations with Integers
Algebraic Expressions
Equations
Word Problems
Mt. SAC Resources
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When you do this, you subtract the numbers and keep the sign of the BIGGER number
What is combining integers with DIFFERENT signs?
100
This is a letter or symbol that represents an unknown quantity.
What is a variable?
100
When you see this, you can tell you have an equation.
What is an equal sign?
100
When translating word problems, order matters when we do this.
What is subtraction?
100
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What is the MARC?
200
When doing this, the negative signs cancel out in PAIRS.
What is multiplying more that two numbers together?
200
These terms have the same variable or variables raised to the same power.
What are like terms?
200
You are FINISHED solving an equation when this happens.
What is the variable is alone on one side.
200
This is an example of a KEY WORD in a word problem.
What is sum, difference, product, quotient, squared, etc?
200
These are the days and times of your SI sessions.
When is Mondays and Tuesdays at 1:30-2:30 pm
300
The "grouping symbols" step in the order of operations include these symbols.
What are parentheses,brackets, curly braces, radicals,absolute values, and division bars.
300
The product rule for exponents says this.
What is "when we multiply like bases, we add exponents."
300
Whenever we do something one one side of an equation we must always do this.
What is the same thing to the other side.
300
This is how you should answer a word problem.
What is a complete sentence with units?
300
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What is the LAC (in building 6, behind the library)?
400
These are the units for perimeter, area and volume (in inches) respectively.
What are inches, square inches, and cubic inches?
400
This property says that when multiplying a term by a polynomial, each term in the polynomial should be multiplied by the term.
What is the distributive property?
400
This is the goal of any equation.
What is isolating x, or getting x by itself?
400
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY** When you have more than one unknown quantity, this is how many variables you should have.
What is ONE?
400
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What is assist.org?
500
This is the only time you can divide by zero.
When is never!
500
In order to find this, we use short division and multiply all the prime factors.
What is the least common multiple?
500
Even though we could use the addition property of equality to add 1,000,000 to both sides of an equation, we mostly use it to do this instead.
What is move variable terms to one side of an equation and constant terms to the other?
500
"The sum of" and "the difference of" begin independent clauses, so when we translate those phrases into math we do this.
What is put parentheses around the related expression?
500
These are the hours of the MARC during the Fall semester.
When is Monday-Friday, 9:00 am - 7:00 pm?
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