Manipulatives are valuable resources for accelerating and deepening students understanding of mathematics, yet they are often overlooked in middle and high school classrooms. In this highly interactive session participants will experience an introductory dive into using algebra tiles to model a variety of algebraic processes in middle and high school mathematics.

Topics that will be explored:

• Operations with signed numbers
• Solving one and two step equations
• Evaluating expressions for a given value
• Combining like terms
• Multiplying binomials
• Adding, subtracting, and multiplying polynomials
• Factoring polynomials
• Completing the square