100 cards
It is designed for middle or high school students working through their first algebra course, for adults returning to math after a break, or for anyone who wants a refresher before tackling more advanced topics. The cards mix short conceptual questions, like defining a variable or explaining the distributive property, with hands-on practice problems where you actually solve for x. This balance helps you check both your understanding of the language of algebra and your ability to apply it.
To get the most out of the deck, try to spend a little time with it every day rather than cramming everything into one long session. When you hit a practice problem, work it out on paper before flipping the card, since doing the algebra by hand is where real learning happens. If you get a card wrong, read the answer carefully and then try to redo a similar problem from memory a day or two later to strengthen your recall.
Pay special attention to the cards about what it means for an equation to have no solution or infinitely many solutions, because these ideas often trip students up but come up again and again in later algebra. Treat any card you miss as a signal to revisit the earlier cards on simpler ideas, since the harder questions usually depend on them. With steady, focused practice, the patterns will start to feel familiar and solving equations will become second nature.