Lesson: Simplifying Expressions: Combining Like Terms Mathematics • 6th Grade

Students will be able to

• understand that like terms have the same variables and the same exponents on each of the variables,
• understand that like terms can be combined using addition and subtraction to reduce the number of terms in a polynomial,
• simplify polynomial expressions by adding and subtracting like terms,
• solve geometric problems that involve the simplification of like terms.