Five full days of substitute-ready Algebra 1 in one no-prep download, built for the problem that makes a math absence hard: the person covering your room almost certainly cannot teach algebra. Nothing here asks them to. Every page opens with a fully worked example, every second page checks its own answers, and a run sheet at the front tells the substitute exactly what to hand out. You come back to a complete set of answer keys and a class that kept working.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• Sub & Teacher Notes run sheet (what to hand out each day, what to print, and why the substitute does not need to grade anything)
• 5 days of student work, two pages per day (110 problems total)
• 5 complete answer keys, one per day
• US Letter, low-ink, two-sided printable

WHY A SUBSTITUTE CAN ACTUALLY RUN THIS

• Every page opens with a fully worked example, so a stuck student reads the page instead of asking the sub a math question
• Every second page checks itself – answers trace a path through a maze or spell out a punchline, so a wrong answer is caught by the student, not adjudicated by the sub
• Every day has an “if you finish early” challenge, so nobody runs out of work
• No calculator, textbook, login, or internet needed

THE 5 DAYS

1. Expressions & Order of Operations – evaluating, order of operations, like terms, the distributive property (22 problems, maze)
2. Solving Linear Equations – one-step, two-step, multi-step, and variables on both sides (24 problems, decoder)
3. Linear Functions & Slope – slope from two points, rate of change, slope-intercept form (24 problems, matching)
4. Systems of Linear Equations – solving by substitution and by elimination (16 problems, maze)
5. Exponents & Polynomials – exponent rules, adding, subtracting and multiplying polynomials, GCF factoring (24 problems, decoder)
   Each day stands alone, so they can run in any order or be pulled one at a time.

PERFECT FOR

• Emergency and planned substitute days in Algebra (grades 8-10)
• Planned absences, professional development days, and testing weeks when you are pulled to proctor
• Review before a test, the first week of school, or the day before a break
• Homeschool families working through Algebra 1

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