Unit
Factoring
MA, Stanford University
Teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alissa is currently a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brightstorm users love her clear, concise explanations of tough concepts
Greatest Common Factors - Problem 6
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MA, Stanford University
Teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alissa is currently a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brightstorm users love her clear, concise explanations of tough concepts
Factoring is the process of taking a polynomial that is a string of sums and differences and re-writing the expression as a product. This is a complicated process, but the first step is always looking for and "undistributing" a greatest common factor if one exists. In these problems, we are looking for what number, or constant, multiplies into all terms of the polynomial. Lastly, sometimes it is useful to pull out a negative factor, even though it would technically not be the greatest factor.
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