This ready-to-use, practical resource is a great way to prepare your students for more formal algebra instruction. Using 0-9 number tiles, algebraic thinking is developed through exploring and formalizing patterns, verbalizing relationships, making generalizations, symbolizing relationships, working with functions, and making connections between real world situations and algebraic statements. The teacher resource guides is 136 pages with teacher's notes and over 100 reproducible activity sheets exploring number sense, place value, basic number theory, variables and simple algebraic expressions and equations. Use with plastic 0-9 tiles (not included) or make number tiles on card stock with supplied blackline masters.

Grades 6-8