Factoring Review

  • Lesson: Review of the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) and Basic Trinomials

  • Lesson: Review of Grouping and the Sum/Difference of Cubes

  • Lesson: Review of Some More Advanced Factoring Tricks

  • Examples: Greatest Common Factor

  • Examples: Using Trial and Error to Factor Trinomials

  • Examples: Grouping

  • Examples: Sum and Difference of Cubes

  • Examples: Harder Trinomials with ax^2 (a is not 1)

Not Required to Turn in! Still feeling rusty? Want to see more explanation on a particular type of factoring?

Below is a list of more examples and instructions on all of the types of factoring that we reviewed above. If you need more thorough complete explanations, please watch any of the following to suit your needs.

  • Lesson: A Quick(ish) Review of All the Main Types of Factoring (A great way to review everything at once, one more time)

  • Examples: The Ultimate Example Video of All Types of Factoring

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    • Notes (super handy for this video, it’s a long list)

  • Lesson: The Greatest Common Factor (GCF)

  • Lesson: Grouping

  • Lesson: The Basics of Factoring by Trial and Error

  • Lesson: Factoring Trinomials of the Form -x^2+bx+c (-1 is leading coefficient)

  • Lesson: Factoring Trinomials of the Form x^2+bxy+cy^2 (Extra variables)

  • Lesson: Factoring when the Leading Coefficient is Not 1 and There is No GCF

  • Lesson: The Difference of Squares and Perfect Square Trinomials

  • Lesson: Factoring with the Sum and Difference of Cubes