Lesson Plan: Factoring by Grouping Mathematics • Second Year of Preparatory School
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to factor expressions by grouping.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify when the grouping method needs to be used to factor an expression,
- partially factor an expression by grouping,
- fully factor expressions by grouping, including those where a common factor is identified between terms.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- factoring trinomials,
- factoring the difference of squares,
- factoring sums and differences of cubes.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- completing the square for general expressions.
