This week I learned how to factor by grouping, although Ms. Burton hasn’t showed us how to do it my brother forced me to. First step is to multiply the first and last term together which is -30 and you have to find out which two numbers add up to -30. Which turned out to…

This week, I learned how to factor “ugly” trinomials. It was a bit shaky for me at first but I got the hang of it, but I don’t know about the trinomials with a negative term though. Ex)   This is an ugly trinomial.   First, I multiply the first (8) and last (-3) term…

This week was a struggle for me, but I learned a few things, such as using models to multiply in two ways.   First way: I drew a straight line at the end of each blocks which surprisingly works, but you gotta watch out if it’s positive or negative.   Second way: I drew a…