Are you taking algebra in the fall? Help Sage catch his mistakes while you brush up on what you need to know. Sage is stuck in an alternate dimension where math can create bridges, flip rooms upside down, and control strange creatures. Sage needs algebra to make it home and find out what happened to his friend Theo. Usually, he gets the big idea right, only to make a small mistake. Click on one of the blue buttons below to help him! This blog works best on desktop. Tap "Copy link" below to...

By a psychologist working with moment.of.math Picture this. Your middle schooler sits down at the kitchen table, opens their laptop, and works through their algebra homework in about twenty-five minutes. No meltdown, no requests for help, no apparent struggle. You glance over and the screen shows a string of green checkmarks. Everything is done. You feel, briefly, like everything is fine. Then the unit test comes back. Or the PSAT. Or they hit the first week of eighth grade and the teacher...

Knowing how to solve an equation is only half the battle. Word problems test whether you can build the equation yourself, which is just as just as important as solving. Click here for some tips on linear equations Word problems in Algebra 1 fall into a few recognizable patterns: setting up a linear equation from a scenario, writing an inequality with a constraint, building a system of equations, and choosing between a linear and exponential model. The algebra is usually straightforward once...