Algebra 1 Emergency Sub Plans - 5 Days No Prep Self-Checking Worksheets

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
- Single 17-page PDF: run sheet and student pages first (pages 1-11), an "Answer Keys" divider on page 12, then the keys (pages 13-17) -- print pages 1-11 to hand out the whole week without printing the keys
- PDF bookmarks for one-click navigation by 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

STANDARDS TOUCHED
Common Core Math: HSA-SSE.A, HSA-CED.A, HSA-REI.B.3, HSA-REI.C.6, HSA-APR.A.1, 8.EE.B.5-6, and 8.EE.C.8 (systems).

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