This week I learned a new method of factoring trinomials. It is the box method. You would really only need this when a doesn’t equal one in a    equation.

Example:

For this method you make a for sided box with the highest term in the top left and the lowest one on the bottom right.  You multiply the two to get the number that two numbers have a product a sum of. (The middle term bx)

Then you find two numbers that fit.

Then you go and find what the terms have in common, if they dont have anything in common you put one. And to find something that thet do have in common you find the gcf.

Then you simply right out the factored equation.

Some challenges are; when the positives and the negatives are implemented to the equation, it can be confusing. Another challenge is finding the correct numbers that fit.