Online Algebra Workshop: Fun with Factoring
Tue, Mar 02
|6 sessions; ending March 18
Through a hands-on, materials based approach, this workshop explores factoring in a way that helps students build a solid understanding of fundamental algebraic concepts. Live workshop is one-hour at 7:00pm ET-US. All workshops are recorded and emailed to all participants.
Time & Location
Mar 02, 2021, 7:00 PM
6 sessions; ending March 18
About the event
Factoring is one of the most fundamental and useful algebraic skills for students to have, as this affects solving equations, graphing, and simplifying and rewriting expressions. Through a hands-on, materials based approach, students can build a solid understanding of these fundamental concepts.
Dates: March 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18Â
Time: 7:00 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST; Live workshop time is 7:00pm ET-US. All workshops are recorded and emailed to all participants.
Schedule: 6-sessions, meeting for 3 weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays for one-hour live sessions with Michael Waski
Cost: $195
Course Syllabus:Â
Session 1: Distributive Property and Removing a Common Factor
Distributive Property with Numbers
Distributive Property with Variables
Distributive Property as Area
Factoring as Area
Removing Common Factors
Session 2: Distributive Property with Polynomials
Distributive Property and Factoring with Higher Powers
Multiple Term Distribution with Numbers
Multiplying with Different Bases on the Checkerboard
Multiplying Polynomials on the Checkerboard
Binomials Multiplication with Algebra Tiles
Session 3: Trinomial Factoring
Basic Trinomial Factoring
Transition to Abstraction
Intermediate Trinomial Factoring
Advanced Trinomial Factoring
Session 4: Perfect Square Trinomials
Perfect Square Trinomials with Algebra Tiles
Perfect Square Trinomials and the Binomial Cube
Simple Competing the Square
Advanced Completing the Square (Time Permitting)
Session 5: Other Factoring Techniques
Factoring by Grouping
Difference of Squares Numerically, Algebraically, and with Algebra Tiles
Difference of Cubes
Sums of Cubes
Session 6: Application of Factoring Techniques
Factoring Sorting
Complete Factorization
Simplifying Rational Expressions
Simplifying Opposite Factors
Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions
Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions
This online workshop will be a introduction to lessons in Later Algebra. These correspond with Teaching Algebra to the Adolescent, Volume 2: A Montessori Approach. Session topics include sequences, complex numbers, exponential and logarithmic activities.
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