What is the name of the strategy we use to solve equations?
What is the Balance Method?
-2a + 11 = 35
What is -12 ?
-5m - 7 = -22
What is 3 ?
y/-8 + 11 = 13
What is -16 ?
y/-9 - 15 = -5
What is -90 ?
What is the goal of the Balance Method?
What is: To Isolate the Variable?
-2r + -39 = -65
What is 13 ?
6k - (-5) = -43
What is -8 ?
k/-8 + (-21) = -5
What is -128?
z/2 - (-14) = -3
What is -34?
-12s + 27 = -93
What is 10 ?
-5h - (-7) = -18
What is 5?
g/-15 + 7 = -4
What is 165 ?
y/-9 -(-18) = 52
What is -306 ?
What is the Big Idea of the Balance Method?
What is: Whatever you do to one side of the equation, you must do to the other side.
-3(4b + 8) = -36
What is 1 ?
7(4f - 6) = 98
What is 5 ?
w/-6 + -4 = 56
What is -360?
d/-10 - (-18) = -64
What is 820?