1.

Name: ............................ Date: ............................

Introduction: Polynomials
Mother’s Shopping List

Think and Discuss

Write down Mother’s shopping list for this week. Note the items she is
going to buy. List them by using the first consonant of its name.

A Cake
Today Mother will make a cake. She got the
recipe from a magazine. The ingredients for
making the cake are as follows:
Ingredient A: Ingredient B:
 200 gr eggs  150 gr wheat flour

 100 gr yolk  25 gr full cream milk powder

 250 gr sugar  5 gr baking powder

 10 gr salt

 20 gr emulsifier (e.g. TBM, SP, etc)

 5 gr vanilla

Ingredient C: Ingredient D:
 100 gr butter  10 gr chocolate powder
 100 gr margarine  25 gr cake seasoning

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 Task
Write down the algebraic form of each ingredient. Note every ingredient
as A, B, C, D.
Write down the algebraic form for all ingredients. For notation, use the
first consonants of each name of the ingredients.

Remember: The unit of each ingredient needs to be considered.

Going to a Restaurant
One Sunday, Andi and 4 other members of his family went to a
restaurant. They are his father, his mother, his brother Yopi, and his
sister Dina. It was Andi’s birthday. He treated his family with his own
money. He had saved it for quite a while.
Each person ordered different items
from the menu as follows:
Father:
1 Hamburger, 2 French Fries,
1 Cheese-stick, and 1 Soda.
Mother:
1 Hamburger, 1 French Fries,
2 Pancakes, and 1 Soda
Yopi:
3 French Fries, 2 Cheese-sticks and
1 Soda
Andi:
2 Hamburgers, 1 Cheese-stick, and
1 Soda
Dina:
1 Pancake, 2 French Fries, and 1 Soda

Task
1. Write down one algebraic form for each order. For notation, use the
first letter of each item.

2. Write down the algebraic form for all of their order. Simplify the
algebraic form that you get.

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 Picnic to the Beach

Via, Muti, Tantri, and Maudi are students of grade 8 at Nusantara

Junior High School. They have been close friends since they were in
elementary school.
Last holiday the four students went to the beach for a picnic. Mr
Darno, Via’s father, took them there. They were very happy during the trip.
At 9 a.m. they arrived at the beach.

The four friends soon competed collecting many cockles, snail-

houses, and other shells of sea animals spread out along the beach. After an
hour, they gathered on the car park to count how many cockles, snail-houses,
and other shells of sea animals they had collected.
Via got 4 yellow cockles, 3 black cockles, 5 red snail-houses, and 3
brown-spotted snail-houses. Muti got 4 brown snail-houses, 3 houses of
porcupine-snail, and 4 yellow cockles. Tantri obtained 4 black cockles, 2
yellow cockles, 1 house of porcupine-snail, and 2 brown snail-houses.
Maudy got 3 yellow cockles, 2 red snail-houses, 1 black cockle, 2 houses of
porcupine-snail, and 1 spotted snail-house
.
Task
1. Write down the algebraic form representing what each of Via and her
friends collected from the beach. Use appropriate notation for each shell they
got.

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 2. Write down the algebraic form for everything the children got on the
beach. Then simplify the algebraic form.

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Name: ............................ Date: ............................

Multiplication of a Monomial and a Binomial

Rini’s group gets a task from the teacher. The have to make an origami in the
form of a frog. To make the origami they need a piece of paper of 128 cm 2 . Can
you help Rini to find out the right size of the paper?

1. Make a table containing every possible size of the paper.

length width area

2. If the length of the paper is twice as its width, what is the size of
the paper?
3. If the length of the paper is 8 cm longer than its width, what is
the size of the paper?

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 Discussion

1. Find out the result of each of the following multiplications using

algebraic units.

a. x(x + 5) b. 2x(x + 2) c. 3x(2x + 1)

2. Suppose Agus has a park. It is square in shape. Each side has

x meters long. Agus wants to expand the park. The length is twice
as it was before. And the width is 3 meters longer. Find the area of
the new park?

3. Solve the following multiplication of a monomial and a

binomial without using a model. Just use the distributive property.

a. 7(2x + 5)

b. (3x – 7) 4x

c. 2ab (–9a 2 + 5ab – 4b 2 )

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Name ......................................... Date ....................................

Multiplication of Two Binomials

1. Solve the multiplication of (x + 3)(x + 2) referring to the Mini

Lab in the Student’s Book. Explain the steps you use.

2. A garden has a rectangular form. Its length is

5m longer than twice its width. On both sides
there is a pathway of 1m in width. The area of
the pathway is 24 m 2 . What are the length and
width of the garden?
To solve this problem, you may use algebraic
units to model the problem.

Exploration:
The length of the garden is ....................
 The width of the garden and the pathway is
....................
 The length of the garden and the pathway is
..................
 The area of the garden is.........................

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  The area of the garden and the pathway
is ........................
2x + 5

x+1 x

2x + 6

Area of the
Planning: Area of the Area of the
garden and the
garden pathway
pathway
(x + 1)(2x + 6) – x(2x + 5) = 24

Solution:
(x + 1)(2x + 6) – x(2x + 5) = 24
x 2 +6x + 2x + 6 – 2x 2 5x = 24 (Why?)
(2x 2 –2x 2 ) + (6x + 2x –5x) + 6 = 24 (Why?)
3x + 6 = 24 (Why?)
3x = 18 (Why?)
x = 6 (Why?)
So the width of the garden is .............
The length of the garden is ......................................

Checking: Area of garden and pathway – area of garden = area of pathway

3. Solve the problems below using your own steps.

a. (2x + 3)(3x + 5)

b. (2x + 1)(5x – 3)

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x(2x +
5)
4. a) Explain to your friends about the FOIL method (First – Outer – Inner
– Last) to solve (3x + 5)(2x + 7). Complete your explanation with an
arrow diagram.

b) Solve (3x + 5)(2x + 7) using the methods you have already known
(the method of the algebraic unit model or the distributive property).

c) Compare the results of (a) and (b)

5. Solve the following products using the FOIL method.

a. (a – 1) (a – 7) b. (6x + 1) (2x – 3)

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Name ......................................... Date ....................................

Exponents of Monomials and Binomials

1. M. Budi has a square garden with the side of (x + 5) long.

a. State the area of Mr. Budi’s garden in mathematical
expression.

b. Does the area of Mr. Budi’s garden represent a square?

c. If it is a square expression, what kind of polynomial is being

squared?

d. State the area of Mr. Budi’s garden by using the operations of

addition and subtraction.

e. What steps did you use to do (d)? Explain.

f. Is there any other way that you can use to solve the problem
(e)?
If there is, explain the way.

2. Simplify the algebraic form 5p 2 (p + 2) 2

3 a. What is meant by (x – 2) 3 ?

b. How do you determine the result of (x – 2) 3 ? Explain your answer.

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Name ......................................... Date ....................................

Determining the Factors of Algebraic Terms

1. Determine whether each of the following polynomials is

factorizable. Check your answer using algebraic units.

a. x 2 + 6x + 8 b. x 2 + 7x + 3

c. 5x 2 – x + 16 d. 8x 2 – 31x – 4

2.................................................Explain how you could determine

whether a given trinomial is factorizable. Provide an example of a
factorizable trinomial and a non-factorizable one.

3. Use algebraic units to factorize the following trinomials.

Then, check your answer using the FOIL method.
a. x 2 + x 6 b. x 2 + 11x + 10

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 4. Use a table as the one in the Student’s Book on page 20 to estimate
and to check the factors of x 2 – 2x – 8.

5. Factorize the algebraic form 10x 2 – 40.

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xx2
-1

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Name ......................................... Date ....................................

Factorizing Special Cases

Think about and discuss the following problems.

Work in group to answer the questions on page 21 of the Student’s Book.
Write down your answers on the provided space.

The pattern of a pair of factors in Group A is (x + a)(x a)

The pair of factors in Group B is (x + a)(x + a)

The pair of factors in Group C is (x a)(x a)

1. The multiplication result is

Group A Group B Group C

2. What polynomial is represented by each of the following groups of

algebraic units? What are the factors of the polynomial?

a. b.

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 3. Examine whether the polynomials in answer 2 above and the

polynomial of the product on Group A can be written as a

difference of two squares, i.e. in the form of a 2 – b 2 ?

4. Factorize the following algebraic forms using the above conclusion.

a. x 2 – 64 b. 4x 2 – 121

5. Critical Thinking

Suppose a friend of yours is factorizing 4x 2 – 121 and the result is

(4x + 11)(4x – 11). What mistakes has your friend made?

6. Determine the result of the following multiplication of

binomials.
a. (a + b) (a + b)

b. (a – b) (a – b)

7. The following are other examples of trinomials of the perfect

quadratic form. Factorize the trinomials.

a. x 2 + 8x + 16

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b. x 2 8x + 16

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