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Algebra tiles can be very beneficial in
helping students
to understand algebraic concepts. The tactile nature of the tiles helps many
students to grasp ideas that would otherwise be foreign to them. The distributive
property can be clearly illustrated with tiles.
See
Making Homemade Tiles
for a template for creating algebra tiles for your students.
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1. Show 3(x +
1) and 3x + 3 are equivalent.
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2. Show 2( -4x + 3)
= -8x + 6
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