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This video covers the concept of combining like terms. If you try to combine terms with different variables, it just won’t work. But terms with the same variable? Now that’s a match made in Pre-Algebra heaven.
- Elementary Algebra / Combining like terms
- Algebra / Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning
- Algebra / Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning and explain the reasoning
- Algebra / Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning
- Algebra / Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning
Transcript
- 00:03
Combining Like Terms, a la Shmoop.
- 00:07
Do you, x squared minus 7, take this expression, [Couple with math calculations for heads marrying]
- 00:11
x squared plus 4, to be your lawfully combined term?
- 00:17
I do.
- 00:18
I do.
Full Transcript
- 00:20
Algebra Tov! It’s been happening for centuries. [Wine glass shatters]
- 00:24
Like terms have been combining.
- 00:26
Creating lives together. Producing offspring. [Like terms math calculations laid in bed]
- 00:29
Statistics show that 87% of like terms stay combined.
- 00:34
But… there is an unlucky 13% who… aren’t able to make it work.
- 00:38
In the case of this lucky couple… …they found each other… [algebra calculation sat on a park bench]
- 00:41
…but not without some challenges. There was 4y’s old flame, for example.
- 00:45
Love was in the air… but it simply wasn’t meant to be.
- 00:49
It seemed as if divine forces were conspiring to keep them apart… [lightning strikes and separates the algebra terms]
- 00:52
Finally, they gave up on their adolescent impulses.. and moved on.
- 00:57
But when 4y met 7y several years later…
- 01:01
…she realized that this term was who she was destined to marry… [4y and 7y by the seaside and a love heart appears]
- 01:06
and someday have little digits of their own.
- 01:08
Well, they had no trouble whatsoever combining…
- 01:10
…as will become clear should you happen to find the whole family at home some evening.
- 01:14
Of course, 4y and 7y are just one successful couple.
- 01:18
There are a zillion similar stories of happy unions. [lots of like terms appear]
- 01:21
All of whom have been busy changing their relationship status on Facebook.
- 01:25
Now there are a couple of “liked” terms…
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