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VOCABULARY
MULTI-STEP EQUATIONS
"SPECIAL" EQUATIONS
WRITING AND SOLVING EQUATIONS
KITCHEN SINK
100
A letter that represents an unknown number in algebraic expressions

What is a variable?

100

3(x-2) + 3x = -4x-2

What is 4/10 or 2/5?

100
Identify the slope and y-intercept: 6x+3y=18
What is m=-2;b=6
100

Write an expression for a number decreased by 6.

What is n-6?

(or x-6 or any variable minus 6)

100

When what's on the left side of the equal sign is not the same as what is on the right.

What is no solution?

200

Terms separated by math operations without an equal sign.


What is an expression?

200

Solve:

2(3b + 6) = 3(10b+4)

What is b=0?

200
X-intercept and Y-intercept: -2x+5y=-20
What is x-intercept=10; y-intercept=-4
200

3 times the difference of a number m and 15 is equal to 30 (as an expression)

What is 3(m-15)=30?

200

When what is on the left side of the equal sign is the same as what is on the right side of the equal sign.

What is infinitely many solutions? (or infinite solutions)

300

A number "sentence" with terms and math operators that says what is on the left side is equal to what is on the right side.

What is an equation?

300

Solve for x: 16x-4=4(2x-3)

What is x=-1?

300

Solve:

-3(y+2) - 5y = 2(-4y-3).


What is there are infinitely many solutions?


300

A basketball coach takes his team to Burger Chef for dinner. Each hamburger cost $4 and each order of fries cost $2.75. He bought 2 fewer fries than burgers. Let b represent the number of burgers. This expression represents the number of fries bought.

a. b

b. 2

c. b+2

d. b-2


What is d?



300

Why Mrs. Spencer draws shapes around like terms.

What is it is easier to see what needs to be combined?

400

A number in front of a variable.

What is a coefficient?

400
An elevator moves at a rate of -5.8 feet per second from a height of 500 feet above ground. It takes 6 seconds for the elevator to make its first stop. How many feet about the ground is the elevator now?
What is 465.2 feet.
400

Solve:

-3(y+2) + 5y=4(y+3)-2y

What is there is no solution?

400

Write an equation to represent this problem:

2 people go to the movies. The tickets are the same price for each ticket and they spend $12.50 at the concession stand. The total cost is $29.50.

Bonus: Solve the equation - how much were the tickets each?



What is 2t+12.50=29.50?

Bonus: What is $8.50?

400

Why Mrs. Spencer draws a line through the equal sign on an equation.

What is to remind us that what we do to one side we have to do to the other?

(or some variation of that - like to remind us to keep everything in balance)

500

Name the Pioneer P's.


Bonus: Name Mrs. Spencer's 2 added P's.

What are punctual, properly dressed, productive, and polite?


What are prepared and positive?

500
True or False: If a number is positive, then its opposite is negative.
What is True.
500

Solve for A:

T=1/2VA

What is 

(2T)/V

500

A basketball coach takes his team to Burger Chef for dinner. Each hamburger cost $4 and each order of fries cost $2.75. He bought 2 fewer fries than burgers. Let b represent the number of burgers.

The coach's total cost for dinner was $68.75. This is how many fries Coach bought.


What is 9?


500

How you think you are going to do on the quiz.

What is AMAZING?