Algebra Class

In my math class we just started a new topic but I'm not sure what it is because I missed that class today due to a dentist appointment.  Anyways, last Friday we took our first test.  This test covered positive and negative integers, order of operations, combining like terms, and the distributive property.  The hardest part of this test for me, was the distributive property portion of the test.  This topic is kind of confusing to me, but luckily I only missed one question on the test.  I think that what we will start learning next will be more challenging, and I cannot decide whether or not I am excited about this, but I'm just glad I have a good teacher who obviously knows how to teach.