Factoring: A General Strategy (A General Approach to Factoring) [fbt]

This video by Fort Bend Tutoring shows the general strategy of factoring algebraic expressions. Ten (10) examples are displayed in this video. This math concept is used in algebra, precalculus, trigonometry and calculus classes. Intro/Outro by Shirley Q. Liquor. Instruction by Larry "Mr. Whitt" Whittington.

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[timbruse]

Update: I watched all three videos on factoring polynomials and this one on general strategies. Had a big factoring test and rocked it! Not only aced it, but nailed the bonus question as well, and scored a 106%. I've never scored that high on a math test. Mr. Whittington is the real deal! That, my friends, is the reason I am a permanent subscriber.

[stickshiftstarship]

The adding-the-digits thing has never been mentioned in any of my classes. What an easy way to see if something is divisible!

[Xiaoxooooo]

Thanks for all your videos Mr.Whitt! ive learned so much about algebra because of your videos. you're a better teacher than all my math teachers. You are the only solution to my math problems thank you so much! keep those arrow poppin!

[jonwill]

Excellent presentation; thank you for sharing.

[tiffanysavelltaylor]

Mr. Whitt, The end of that video has to be the funniest, including your intros! Keep it up...you are SUCH an amazing teacher, and we are so thankful we found you. You have a God-given gift, Sir.

P.S. Is Shirley's character modeled after "The Ladie's Man"? ;-) Sometimes I wonder if you really have Tim Meadows doing cameos for you!

[harleesmimi]

I am really not sure what I would do without you this semester!  I am so grateful for your videos.  I wish I could pause my professor so that I could grasp what she's trying to teach.. LOL..  ;-)

[kasalii]

Thank you so much for posting these videos. They really help me with my homework!

[Loganoooo]

You make me love math much more!! Thanks!

[EyeIn_The_Sky]

@21:13 you got the "plus" the product of x-5 which I would have thought would give you a minus sign/negative not a "+5x" since you are multiplying a positive with a negative. What am I missing here?

[abdiade]

I told my teacher "catch me at Fort Bend Tuoring, HOW ABOUT THAT" 6:00

[paulbuschman]

Many thanks as always Mr Whitt...keepin it POPPIN!
Do you have a tutorial on matrices and any covering trigonometric functions and identities, right-triangle trigonometry, and graphs of trigonometric functions? I am cramming for a college assessment exam.

[ravenreyes]

So good!!! I feel like I'm in the video game because of the quality of your voice. Thank you so much!

[juneamberramonel]

thanks mr. whitt .keepin it POPPIN!.. you help me so much in my teaching career.. :)

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[aakashkarajgikar]

7:30 Oh! I thought that you want to put the factor containing a sum first before the difference. What happened to that?

[leechmaster]

Love your videos Larry. I still don't really get why we factor sometimes, it looks like we end up with a much longer answer in some cases.

[timbruse]

Huge factoring test tomorrow, and this helped big time! #10 is awfully tricky and can creep some doubts in my head though. Do you have any videos that that show more like it? Really wanna crush those types. Everything else, however, feeling really good about!!! Thanks Mr. Whitington!!! ~Your Permanent Sub

[sophiasilva]

i have a question, for problem number 5, why didn't we divide 4 (the first term) with 6 and 5? since it was a quadratic trinomial, aren't we supposed to do that part?

[devay]

There is no clickable link between the factoring by grouping when it appears.