New Math Worksheets this Week

At Math-Drills.com, we hope that your September is going well and that you are enjoying learning and teaching math as much as we do.

Thanks to our users, we have created some new math worksheets this week that you might find useful.

Graphing Linear Equations

We started off by playing around with some of the graphing features in OpenOffice and came up with a worksheet for graphing linear equations that are in the slope-intercept form. For those of you familiar with this equation form, graphing is made quite easy because the equation contains the y-intercept value and the slope information (rise over run)

Later in the week, we thought that we should also include some worksheets that do the opposite, i.e. students would find the equation in slope-intercept form from the already drawn graph.

You can find both of these new worksheets on the Algebra page under the heading: Graphing Linear Equations.

One Step Equations

Also on our Algebra page, are some new one step equations worksheets. Depending on how you teach this topic, they might be one or more steps. The main feature of these worksheets is that they include no coefficients on the unknowns and there are only two other terms, both numbers. Basically, the one step comes into play when you mentally try to think of the number that makes the equation true. You may also teach this in two or three steps where students subtract or add the same number to both sides of the equation to isolate the unknown, then solve the other side of the equation. A third step might come into play if the isolated unknown ends up with a negative sign.

Equivalent Fractions

We've had equivalent fractions worksheets on the website for years, but someone suggested we also have worksheets to identify whether two fractions are equivalent or not. In order to accomplish this, we made a page of pairs for fractions and ask students to check the ones that are equivalent. We haven't made it overly easy as the two numerators and the two denominators are always multiples. Sometimes, the numerator and denominator are multiplied by different numbers which makes the pair of fractions unequal. See if your students can find all of the equivalent fractions without getting messed up!

Plotting Coordinate Points

As with the previous two additions, this math worksheet was a result of a request from one of our users. He wanted worksheets where students would plot coordinate points, but only in positive x quadrants or in positive y quadrants, so we made them, of course. You can find these gems on the Geometry page under Coordinate Point Geometry.

Distributive Property in Algebra

Also a request from one of our users, the distributive property is used in algebra to simplify expressions. If students are learning this important concept, then they can now use one of our worksheets under the heading Simplifying Algebraic Expressions on the Algebra page, of course.

Errors

We may have mentioned in the past that we aren't perfect which is why we like to hear from our users when we mess something up. Thanks to two attentive users, we managed to pinpoint and fix two minor errors that were on our math worksheets. If you notice something that needs fixing, please don't hesitate to let us know.

What are we adding today?

Something like this might be nice:

As always, enjoy your day!