These activities make teaching algebra concepts - easy for you and enjoyable for your students! - Based on the NCTM Standards, this book offers - age-appropriate activities that teach the basics in - algebra: work with patterns, making generalizations, - understanding variables and equations, and finding - unknowns. Each concept is introduced concretely, - followed with other activities to take learning to the - symbolic level. Includes user-friendly guidelines - for developing algebraic thinking and understanding - at each grade level. Reproducible. 48 pp.-