Lesson Plan: Evaluating Expressions: Highest Common Factor
This lesson plan includes the objectives and prerequisites of the lesson teaching students how to evaluate algebraic expressions by factoring out the highest common factor.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify common factors in multiterm algebraic expressions,
- simplify expressions by factoring the highest common factor of their terms,
- evaluate algebraic expressions by factoring out the highest common factor.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- algebraic expressions,
- factoring.
