Combining Like Terms Worksheets & Answers

Teach students to recognise and combine like terms while keeping signs and variable parts correct. This 12-page printable PDF provides explicit teaching, guided practice, independent practice and complete worked answers for Year 7 / 7th grade algebra.

INCLUDED
• 2 teaching pages with explanations and worked examples
• 6 recognition and grouping questions
• 12 guided simplifying questions
• 12 independent questions, including one reasoning question
• 2 answer-key pages with worked algebra and recognition explanations
• Cover, teaching overview and terms
12 A4 pages total. PDF format.

SCOPE AND USE
Recognition covers matching letters, powers and products such as ab. Simplifying practice uses one or two variables, integer coefficients and constants. Students need integer addition/subtraction and familiarity with variables. Suitable for classroom instruction, tutoring, intervention or revision over one or two lessons. No bracket expansion, fractional coefficients or equation solving.

IMPORTANT: CONTENT OVERLAP
The core examples and all 30 questions are selected or adapted from Stages 3-4 of the Mastery Lane 51-page Algebraic Expressions Teaching Package and its bundle. Selected questions and introductory examples also appear in the free 003B Combining Like Terms sampler. This paid standalone extends the teaching and practice; it is not entirely new content for owners of those resources.

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