Pre Algebra Review Summer School Curriculum to Get Students Algebra Ready

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This packet is filled with activities focused on what Algebra 1 teachers say are the most essential skills students need to be successful.

Check out what is included:

FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, & ORDER OF OPERATIONS

• Fraction Operations Practice: These tasks have students operating with fractions to create given sums, differences, products, and quotients.
• Collaborative Coloring with Order of Operations: Students love these group challenges! In this one, they must simplify expressions involving fractions and decimals using the order of operations.

INTEGERS

• Sea Level Integers: This in-depth lesson uses real world context to help students understand, compare, add, and subtract integers.
• Integer Operations Drills PowerPoints: Use these as a fun way to measure students' growth and efficiency working with integers.

SIMPLIFYING & TRANSLATING EXPRESSIONS

• Combining Like Terms and Distributive Property PowerPoint: Real world context helps students make sense of simplifying expressions.
• Distributive Property Card Sort: Students find greatest common factors to create equivalent expressions using the distributive property.
• Translating Expressions Coordinate Graph Picture: Students must translate words to expressions and simplify to get their ordered pairs. Then they graph them to create a football.
• Substituting Values for Variables Practice: Students substitute values and simplify expressions to reveal fun space facts.
• Percent Increase and Decrease Card Sort: Students find expressions to represent real world scenarios involving percentages.

EQUATIONS & INEQUALITIES

• Writing Equations for Word Problems Game: These cards are a fun way to practice translating words into equations.
• Multi-Step Equation Puzzles: These fun challenges will give students practice solving different types of equations.
• Collaborative Coloring with Equations: Students solve equations involving like terms and distributing to figure out the hidden picture!
• Inequalities Guided Notes and Practice: Help students understand why we flip the inequality sign when multiplying or dividing by a negative number.

LINEAR GRAPHS

• Linear Graphing Summer Tasks: These real-world stories help students connect multiple representations of linear functions as they complete the graphs, tables, and equations.
• Linear Equations Bingo PowerPoint: Use this fun game to practice writing linear equations given graphs, tables, and stories.

EXTRAS

• Summer Logic Puzzles: These picture equations are a fun way to get students thinking algebraically and solving systems of equations.
• Ready for Algebra Coloring Sheets: See if students remember all the essential topics to be ready for Algebra 1!
• Checklist: This quick checklist gives an overview of what most Algebra 1 teachers want their students to know before starting the year.
  

These resources were carefully selected to help you target important skills from middle school that will help students succeed in Algebra 1.

The lessons, worksheets, and activities could be used at the end of 8th grade math, during summer school, or at the beginning of Algebra 1.

If all resources are used in their entirety, they will take about 25+ hours.

Most resources can be printed and can be used without computers (except for the PowerPoints). Some resources include digital versions as well.

These activities are engaging and purposely chosen to reinforce the middle school skills that are essential for success in Algebra 1.