Lyrics:
If you want to solve equations here is how!
Read them with their operations, do it now.
Then undo them every time
by directions in this rhyme.
Do the opposite, that's what the rules allow.
If you read "minus" to solve them you must add.
If you say "plus" you subtract or you'll be sad.
Multiply will get undone,
By dividing every one.
And divide gets multiplied or answer's bad.
Oh equations must stay balanced to be true.
What you do to one side you must do to two!
And to solve for the unknown
You must get it all alone
Using every single trick you know to do!
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