Pre-Algebra Readiness Packet

Pre-Algebra Readiness Packet allows you to assess your students’ knowledge of basic math skills as they head off to Pre-Algebra. This Pre-Algebra Math Packet consists of a total of 72 problems across 6 pages with quick review/notes to get them started. Click on the Preview to see the entire packet and quiz. Click on Easel Activity for an interactive digital resource students can answer using their electronic device.

Included in this Pre-Algebra Readiness Packet:

1. Vocabulary – Commutative, Associate, & Distributive Properties, factors, multiples, perfect squares among others 12 fill in the blank (word bank included)

2. Order of Operations – notes and 4 practice problems

3. Solving one-step equations – 8 problems

4. Fractions – notes and 12 problems where students add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions. They must reduce their answers to lowest terms, leave their answers as improper fractions and change mixed numbers into improper fractions.

5. Writing Algebraic Expressions – 9 problems where students translate a verbal phrase

6. Inequalities – notes and 10 practice problems where students graph inequalities on a number line that’s provided for them and they translate 6 phrases using the proper symbols

7. Proportions – notes and 3 practice problems (1 is a word problem)

8. Line Plots – notes and 3 practice problems

9. Perimeter and Area of rectangles, squares and triangles and Volume of rectangular solids

10. 10 question Quiz reviewing the skills in the packet

11. Math Family Challenge – Basic Math Trivia to encourage family involvement

12. Pre-Algebra Readiness Packet Answer Keys to the Review and Quiz

13. I’m Off to a GREAT Start Certificate – great for motivating students

Pre-Algebra Readiness Packet Suggested Lesson Implementation:

1. You can use this resources as a summer packet for your students to complete by the first day of school. You can collect the packets or simply have the students switch papers and check their answers. They can also come up to the board and show their work. If you click on the Easel Activity, students can interact with the resource using their electronic device.

2. My preference is to give these students this packet on the first day (or within the first week) of school and make it due in five days. That way, students can review the prerequisite skills needed for Pre-Algebra. Some schools undergo a lot of schedule changes during the first week of school so reviewing these skills is not a waste of the student’s time or yours. These skills are necessary for any upper level math course. Then use the quick 10 question quiz to see how well your students do.

3. The Math Family Challenge – Basic Math Trivia is a fun way to get your students talking about mathematics within their home. You can also log it down as a way you promote parental involvement in your math class. Go over the answers with the students together. Then explain that they are to go back to their house and ask their family the questions to determine the winner (the person with the highest percentage of correct answers).

4. You can even leave these assignments for your emergency substitute lesson plans.

Worked out solutions are included in this Pre-Algebra Math Packet.

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