Find the right balance between concrete and abstract thinking. After using interactive balances to explore inverse operations, learners solve multi-step equations with variables on both sides. Of course, they can still use the...

Seventh graders simplify algebraic expressions using addition and subtraction to combine like items and solve for the variable. They work with inverse operations to solve equations with guided practice. Everyone completes various...

For this equations review worksheet, students solve algebraic equations with one variable.  They use inverse operations to solve for the unknown.  Students translate word sentences to number sentences and then solve.  This...

In this place value worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 74 various types of problems. First, they write the given numbers in words and write down the value of the digit that is underlined in each. Then, students write the missing...

In this word problem worksheet, learners solve 6 problems in which they identify the relationship between multiplication and division as inverse operations. They draw arrays and write equations.

In this algebra equations learning exercise, 7th graders review how to use inverse operations to solve equations. Students then use inverse operation to solve the seventeen problems.

Cyberchase video introduces the idea of inverse operations as Bianca imagines herself as a spy. [3:26]

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students solve equations involving addition and subtraction. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...

In this activity on solving equations and inequalities, students explore the solving equations and inequalities are the same and different by exploring the effects of negative numbers and using inverse operations when solving side by side.