Thinking about Factoring

In grade 10 today we were looking at what value of “k” would make expressions factorable.

We used our logic and understanding of algebra tiles to build all the rectangles we could. We can change the number of x tiles we have, that’s all.

After working through several examples, we looked at a mix of factoring questions.

We’re getting much better with practice! We need to work on identifying cases where we need to factor, then factor again.