Students learn how to expand the product of two brackets and collect the like terms.
As learning progresses, they apply their learning to calculate the area of rectangles and triangles with algebraic lengths.
Differentiated Learning Objectives
- All students should be able to expand and simplify two brackets in the form (x+a)(x+b).
- Most students should be able to expand and simplify two brackets in the form (x±a)(x±b).
- Some students should be able to expand and simplify two brackets in the form (ax±c)(bx±d).
