FACTORING

USING ALGEBRA
TILES
1. Gather all the needed tiles.
2. Arrange the tiles in a shape of a rectangle.
3. Write the dimensions of the rectangle.
4. Rewrite the dimensions as factors of the given
polynomial.
4x2 – 9x + 5
FACTOR 4X –
2 9X + 5

11
-x
xxx222
2 -x
-x
-x
11
1
x -x
-x
-x
-x
-x
FACTOR 4X –
2 9X + 5

-x -x -x
x2 x2

-x -x -x
x 2 x2
1

-x
-x

1
-x 1
1
1
FIND THE FACTOR OF THE FOLLOWING
POLYNOMIALS USING ALGEBRA TILES

3x -
2 7x + 2
2x 2 + 9x + 4