Week 6 – Math 10
Week 6 was arguably the best week for me because I had a great understanding of what the topic was and I managed to learn some new things too. We’re still covering polynomials but we expanded a bit more and learned multiple ways to distribute when multiplying two polynomials. This blog will be covering those methods and the benefits and downsides to using them.
The first method is using the distributive property of multiplication. This method is straightforward and simple, as you are placing all terms of the first polynomial behind the second polynomial and multiplying. If our question was (3x-4)(2x-2) it would be formatted like this:
After finding the simplified versions to the terms add them together, the answer will be . The benefits to this method is that it is simple and easy to do, and can apply to most polynomials, the downsides are that it is quite time consuming to multiply each individual term, especially if there are three or more terms that need distributing.
The second method is using Algebra tiles. This method has you using a grid-like pattern using rectangles and squares, with x being long rectangles and squares being constant 1’s. If our question were (2x+3)(x-2) it would be formatted like this:
Here, you stack all the shapes in a column facing vertically or horizontally, then you draw a straight line until all lines intersect and make a grid-shaped square. After that you label which numbers are positive and negative, if two positive rectangles intersect then its positive, if one positive and one negative rectangle intersect then its negative, if two negative rectangles intersect then its positive again. Once that’s finished sort all like terms together and simplify, the answer to this equation is .
The benefits to this method is that it uses visuals like rectangles and squares that can aid those who are visual learners. The downsides to this are that this can take a while to draw and shade the grid in, it isn’t very helpful when the terms are large, and it can only solve questions that have a degree of 1.
The third method is what’s called the FOIL method. FOIL is an acronym that stands for First, Outside, Inside, Last and is the order of which you multiply terms together. If our question were (6x+9)(4x-3) it would be formatted like this:
The first term of the first polynomial is multiplied with the first term of the second polynomial, the outer terms are multiplied with each other, the terms furthest inside the parenthesis are multiplied, then the last terms are multiplied. The answer would be
The benefit of this method is that it is very fast if you can multiply numbers quickly, but the downside is that it you may be liable to miscalculate and get the wrong answer as there aren’t any visuals to aid you in solving.
The final method is the multiplication grid method. This method is essentially a better, improved version of Algebra tiles. You start off by making a grid with each term next to a square, you then multiply across with all terms. If our question were (9x+7)(8x-5) it would be formatted like this:
After adding all like terms together the answer would be @latex 72x^2+11x-35$. The benefits to this method is that it is easy to do, has visuals, and can even apply to polynomials that have more than 3 terms, as you can add more tiles to the grid if need be. The only downside is that you might not have the space to draw out the grid, especially on test paper.
And those are the four methods of multiply binomials I learned.
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