Categories
Arithmetic with Polynomials and Rational Expressions exponents Expressions Seeing Structure in Expressions Simplifying expressions

Combining Like Terms + Exponents

Here are 7 mistakes. There represent all of the variety of mistakes from a selection of 36 students. The first two mistakes were repeated by several students, but the last 5 were unique in the sample.

IMG_2595

IMG_2605IMG_2604IMG_2603IMG_2602 IMG_2600 IMG_2599

Which of these mistakes would you predict? Which ones surprise you? Can you make sense of them all?