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INTRODUCTION ( FOR PARENTS) HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

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CHAPTER 1 EXPRESSIONS AND SIMPLEST EQUATIONS

LESSON 1 VARIABLES AND ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS 1 LESSON 2 TRANSLATING PHRASES TO ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS 4 LESSON 3 PROPERTIES OF ARITHMETICAL OPERATIONS: 6 ADDITION AND MULTIPLICATION LESSON 4 PROPERTIES OF ARITHMETICAL OPERATIONS: 8 SUBTRACTION AND DIVISION LESSON 5 THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY 10 LESSON 6 THE SIMPLEST EQUATIONS 12 LESSON 7 THE BEST WAY TO SOLVE THE SIMPLEST EQUATIONS 14 LESSON 8 WORD PROBLEMS WITH EQUATIONS OF THE TYPE 16 LESSON 9 SOLVING THE SIMPLEST EQUATIONS WITH MULTIPLICATION 17 AND DIVISION LESSON 10 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS WITH MULTIPLICATION 18 AND DIVISION

CHAPTER 2 TWO-STEP EQUATIONS

LESSON 1 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH DECIMALS 20 LESSON 2 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH FRACTIONS AND MIXED NUMBERS 21 LESSON 3 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS WITH FRACTIONAL EQUATIONS 23 LESSON 4 SOLVING TWO-STEP EQUATIONS 25 LESSON 5 TRANSLATING SENTENCES INVOLVING COMBINED OPERATIONS 27 LESSON 6 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS WITH TWO-STEP EQUATIONS 29 LESSON 7 SIMPLIFYING ALGEBRAIC EXPESSIONS 31 LESSON 8 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH MORE SIMPLIFYING 33 LESSON 9 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS 34 LESSON 10 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH VARIABLES ON BOTH SIDES 37 LESSON 11 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS 39

CHAPTER 3 INTEGERS

LESSON 1 INTEGERS, NUMBER LINE 42 LESSON 2 COMPARING INTEGERS 44 LESSON 3 ADDING INTEGERS 45 LESSON 4 SUBTRACTING INTEGERS 46 LESSON 5 MULTIPLYING INTEGERS 48 LESSON 6 DIVIDING INTEGERS 49 LESSON 7 COMBINED OPERATIONS WITH INTEGERS 50 LESSON 8 WORD PROBLEMS 51

CHAPTER 4 INTEGER EQUATIONS

LESSON 1 SOLVING INTEGER EQUATIONS USING ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION 52 LESSON 2 SOLVING INTEGER EQUATIONS USING MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION 53 LESSON 3 POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DECIMALS 54 LESSON 4 ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DECIMALS 56 LESSON 5 MULTIPLYING AND DIVIDING WITH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DECIMALS 57 LESSON 6 SOLVING DECIMAL EQUATIONS WITH ALL KIND OF DECIMALS 58 LESSON 7 SIMPLIFYING ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS 59 LESSON 8 SOLVING EQUATIONS USING SEVERAL TRANSFORMATIONS 60 LESSON 9 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS 62

CHAPTER 5 EQUATIONS WITH RATIONAL NUMBERS

LESSON 1 RATIONAL NUMBERS 64 LESSON 2 COMPARING AND ORDERING RATIONAL NUMBERS 68 LESSON 3 ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH LIKE DENOMINATORS 70 LESSON 4 ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH UNLIKE DENOMINATORS 72 LESSON 5 ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH MIXED NUMBERS 73 LESSON 6 SOLVING EQUATIONS USING ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION 74 LESSON 7 MULTIPLYING RATIONAL NUMBERS 76 LESSON 8 DIVIDING RATIONAL NUMBERS 77 LESSON 9 SOLVING EQUATIONS USING MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION 78 LESSON 10 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH TWO OR MORE STEPS 80 LESSON 11 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS 82 LESSON 12 SOLVING INEQUALITIES 85 LESSON 13 SOLVING INEQUALITIES WITH COMBINED OPERATIONS 87 LESSON 14 WORD PROBLEMS WITH INEQUALITIES 89

CHAPTER 6 RATIO, PROPORTION, AND PERCENT

LESSON 1 RATIO 91 LESSON 2 PROPORTION 92 LESSON 3 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS USING RATIO AND PROPORTION 95 LESSON 4 PERCENTS 97 LESSON 5 PERCENTS, FRACTIONS, AND DECIMALS 98 LESSON 6 FINDING A PERCENTAGE OF A NUMBER 99 LESSON 7 FINDING A NUMBER WHEN A PERCENTAGE OF IT IS KNOWN 101 LESSON 8 FINDING WHAT PERCENT ONE NUMBER IS OF ANOTHER 102 LESSON 9 WORD PROBLEMS WITH PERCENTS 103 LESSON 10 DISCOUNT, SALE PRICE, AND SALES TAX 105 LESSON 11 INTEREST 106

CHAPTER 7 EXPONENTS

LESSON 1 POWERS AND EXPONENTS 108 LESSON 2 NEGATIVE EXPONENTS 110 LESSON 3 SCIENTIFIC NOTATION 112 LESSON 4 USING SCIENTIFIC NOTATION IN CALCULATIONS 114 LESSON 5 THE ORDER OF OPERATIONS 115 LESSON 6 WORD PROBLEMS 117 LESSON 7 SQUARE ROOTS 118 LESSON 8 SOLVING EQUATIONS USING SQUARE ROOTS 120

WORKBOOK

CHAPTER 1 EXPRESSIONS AND SIMPLEST EQUATIONS

LESSON 1 VARIABLES AND ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS 123 LESSON 2 TRANSLATING PHRASES TO ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS 124 LESSON 3 PROPERTIES OF ARITHMETICAL OPERATIONS: ADDITION AND MULTIPLICATION 126 LESSON 4 PROPERTIES OF ARITHMETICAL OPERATIONS: SUBTRACTION AND DIVISION 127 LESSON 5 THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY 128 LESSON 6 THE SIMPLEST EQUATIONS 129 LESSON 7 THE BEST WAY TO SOLVE THE SIMPLEST EQUATIONS 129 LESSON 8 WORD PROBLEMS WITH EQUATIONS OF THE TYPE 130 LESSON 9 SOLVING THE SIMPLEST EQUATIONS WITH MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION 131 LESSON 10 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS WITH MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION 132 CHAPTER 1 TEST 133

CHAPTER 2 TWO-STEP EQUATIONS

LESSON 1 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH DECIMALS 134 LESSON 2 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH FRACTIONS AND MIXED NUMBERS 135 LESSON 3 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS WITH FRACTIONAL EQUATIONS 136 LESSON 4 SOLVING TWO-STEP EQUATIONS 137 LESSON 5 TRANSLATING SENTENCES INVOLVING COMBINED OPERATIONS 138 LESSON 6 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS WITH TWO-STEP EQUATIONS 139 LESSON 7 SIMPLIFYING ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS 140 LESSON 8 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH MORE SIMPLIFYING 141 LESSON 9 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS 142 LESSON 10 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH VARIABLES ON BOTH SIDES 143 LESSON 11 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS 143 CHAPTER 2 TEST 145

CHAPTER 3 INTEGERS

LESSON 1 INTEGERS, NUMBER LINE 146 LESSON 2 COMPARING INTEGERS 146 LESSON 3 ADDING INTEGERS 147 LESSON 4 SUBTRACTING INTEGERS 147 LESSON 5 MULTIPLYING INTEGERS 148 LESSON 6 DIVIDING INTEGERS 148 LESSON 7 COMBINED OPERATIONS WITH INTEGERS 149

CHAPTER 4 INTEGER EQUATIONS

LESSON 1 SOLVING INTEGER EQUATIONS USING ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION 149 LESSON 2 SOLVING INTEGER EQUATIONS USING MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION 150 LESSON 3 POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DECIMALS 151 LESSON 4 ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DECIMALS 152 LESSON 5 MULTIPLYING AND DIVIDING WITH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DECIMALS 154 LESSON 6 SOLVING DECIMAL EQUATIONS WITH ALL KIND OF DECIMALS 155 LESSON 7 SIMPLIFYING ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS 155 LESSON 8 SOLVING EQUATIONS USING SEVERAL TRANSFORMATIONS 156 LESSON 9 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS 157 CHAPTER 4 TEST 158

CHAPTER 5 EQUATIONS WITH RATIONAL NUMBERS

LESSON 1 RATIONAL NUMBERS 159 LESSON 2 COMPARING AND ORDERING RATIONAL NUMBERS 161 LESSON 3 ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH LIKE DENOMINATORS 162 LESSON 4 ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH UNLIKE DENOMINATORS 164 LESSON 5 ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH MIXED NUMBERS 165 LESSON 6 SOLVING EQUATIONS USING ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION 166 LESSON 7 MULTIPLYING RATIONAL NUMBERS 168 LESSON 8 DIVIDING RATIONAL NUMBERS 169 LESSON 9 SOLVING EQUATIONS USING MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION 170 LESSON 10 SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH TWO OR MORE STEPS 171 LESSON 11 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS 171 LESSON 12 SOLVING INEQUALITIES 174 LESSON 13 SOLVING INEQUALITIES WITH COMBINED OPERATIONS 175 LESSON 14 WORD PROBLEMS WITH INEQUALITIES 176 CHAPTER 5 TEST 178

CHAPTER 6 RATIO, PROPORTION, AND PERCENT

LESSON 1 RATIO 179 LESSON 2 PROPORTION 180 LESSON 3 SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS USING RATIO AND PROPORTION 182 LESSON 4 PERCENTS 184 LESSON 5 PERCENTS, FRACTIONS, AND DECIMALS 185 LESSON 6 FINDING A PERCENTAGE OF A NUMBER 186 LESSON 7 FINDING A NUMBER WHEN A PERCENTAGE OF IT IS KNOWN 187 LESSON 8 FINDING WHAT PERCENT ONE NUMBER IS OF ANOTHER 189 LESSON 9 WORD PROBLEMS WITH PERCENTS 189 LESSON 10 DISCOUNT, SALE PRICE, AND SALES TAX 191 LESSON 11 INTEREST 193 CHAPTER 6 TEST 195

CHAPTER 7 EXPONENTS

LESSON 1 POWERS AND EXPONENTS 196 LESSON 2 NEGATIVE EXPONENTS 197 LESSON 3 SCIENTIFIC NOTATION 198 LESSON 4 USING SCIENTIFIC NOTATION IN CALCULATIONS 200 LESSON 5 THE ORDER OF OPERATIONS 202 LESSON 6 WORD PROBLEMS 204 LESSON 7 SQUARE ROOTS 205 LESSON 8 SOLVING EQUATIONS USING SQUARE ROOTS 206 CHAPTER 7 TEST 207

ANSWERS

CHAPTER 1 211 CHAPTER 2 214 CHAPTER 3 218 CHAPTER 4 219 CHAPTER 5 222 CHAPTER 6 233 CHAPTER 7 237