Factoring Special Products... Can you recognize the patterns?

In this video lesson, you will learn how to recognize and factor special products of polynomials. I will model and explain how to identify which terms make up the sum and difference patterns and the square of a binomial pattern. We will make connection between multiply special products and factoring special products. Student practice is embedded in the lesson and exemplar problems are modeled and explained.

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CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSA.SSE.A.2
Use the structure of an expression to identify ways to rewrite it. For example, see x4 - y4 as (x2)2 - (y2)2, thus recognizing it as a difference of squares that can be factored as (x2 - y2)(x2 + y2).
Write expressions in equivalent forms to solve problems.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSA.SSE.B.3
Choose and produce an equivalent form of an expression to reveal and explain properties of the quantity represented by the expression.*
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSA.SSE.B.3.A
Factor a quadratic expression to reveal the zeros of the function it defines.