Below, I solved various equations using algebra tiles.

(X+1)^2

= (X+1)(X+1)

= X(X-1)+1(X+1)

=

= +2x+1

= (X-1)(X-1)

= X(X-1) + 1(X-1)

=

=

(X+1) (X-1)

= X(X-1)+1(X-1)

=

=

= (X-1) (X-1) (X-1)

=

=

=

This assignment taught me how to you the $latex coding directly in my blog post. Before, I couldn’t figure out how to show my polynomials online, but this really helped and I will definitely use this is the future. I also visually saw how polynomial are distributed, as well as what can be modeled and what cannot. For example, the last question () cannot be modeled because we do not have tiles to demonstrate cubes. The other 3 previous question were able to be modeled because they all used squares (rather than cubes).