Combining Like Terms & Distributive Property | Google Sheets | Print & Digital

***This resource contains expressions with positive numbers only; students will not need to apply negative integer rules to solve. To find the version of combining like terms with positive and negative integers, click here.

All activities are great as sub plan, review lesson, extra credit, extensions, or independent practice!

Product #1 & 2: (Digital - 4 Google Sheets)

Students practice a series of problems on 4 google sheets, and get immediate feedback as they go. Correct answers turn green and incorrect answers stay red. As students type in correct answers, a mystery picture appears.

Product #1: Combining like terms (2 GOOGLE SHEETS)

✅ Google Sheet #1: Combining Like Terms (Shorter Expressions)

✅ Google Sheet #2: Combining Like Terms (Longer Expressions)

✅ PDF answer key

✅ Printable PDF worksheets (for student to show work prior to typing into google sheet)

Product #2: Distributive Property (2 GOOGLE SHEETS)

✅ Google Sheet #3: Distributive Property

✅ Google Sheet #4: Distributive Property & Combining Like Terms

✅ PDF answer key

✅ Printable PDF worksheets (for student to show work prior to typing into google sheet)

Product #3: Combining like terms and distributive property (Print - 8 pgs color & doodle worksheets)

Students solve the 3 levels, they unlock patterns/colors they can doodle in designated spaces to complete a mystery image. At the end of the activity, their solutions become a math masterpiece that's easy to spot-check at a distance. If your students love color by number or color by code, they’ll love Doodle Math!

✅ Level 1: Combining Like Terms — 8 problems, 1 page

✅ Level 2: Distributive Property — 8 problems, 1 page

✅ Level 3: Combining Like Terms and Distributive Property — 8 problems, 1 page

✅ Image with designated sections for doodling. — 1 page

✅ Answer key — 1 page

Great for…

⭐ Review Lessons

⭐ Emergency Sub Plans

⭐ Homeschool Activities

⭐ Homework & Independent Practice

⭐ Learning Centers & After School Math Programs

This resource covers the 6th grade common core standards:

6.EE.A.3 Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions. (i.e distributive property)

6.EE.A.4 Identify when two expressions are equivalent (i.e. combining like terms)

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