About This Lesson
This lesson is intended to determine how well students are able to translate between words, symbols, tables, and area representations of algebraic expressions. It will help you identify and support students who have difficulty recognizing the order of algebraic operations; recognizing equivalent expressions; understanding the distributive laws of multiplication and division over addition (expansion of parentheses). Developed by the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service and sharedunder the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).