8-8 Special Products

Objective:Students will be able to use special

product patterns to multiply polynomials.

• In the example below, what are we multiplying?

• Knowing that, try this example…

• In the example, we are taking the quantity (x+2) and multiplying it by itself.

Example 1: Find each product.1) 2)

Try these.3) 4)

5)

Try this. 6)

• Now let’s look at the product of two binomials that are the sum and difference of the same terms.

• What happens when we multiply these two binomials:

Example 2: Find each product.1) 2)

Try these.3) 4)