ALGEBRA FACTORING

FIND MY MATCH

VALENTINE ACTIVITY

In this ac*vity, students prac*ce factoring trinomials and using FOIL to mul*ply two binomials together. Trinomials in this ac*vity have coecients of one and coecients other than one. The ac*vity begins with all students being given a heart. The odd numbered hearts will have a trinomial to be factored, and the even numbered hearts will have two binomials to be mul*plied together. The teacher may wish to run o the hearts on colored paper. I have also found Fun Foam hearts at the dollar spot in major retailers that could be used for this ac*vity. Students take a moment to either factor or use FOIL. Then they must search the room for their match. It may be nice for the teacher to provide a valen*ne treat for the groups that match correctly : ) There are enough hearts for 30 students to par*cipate in this ac*vity at a *me. The teacher can add or subtract hearts as necessary for the number of students. A blank heart template is provided.

5 24

7 10

2x2+5x-3 (x+3)(2x-1)

6x2-19x+10 (2x-5)(3x-2)

21 8

23 26

2x2-7x-9

2x2-3x-35

(x+1)(2x-9)

(2x+7)(x-5)

ANSWER KEY: (These are the numbers on the hearts that match. Example heart number 1 (x2-4x-21) matches with heart number 12 ((x-7)(x+3)) 1, 12 3, 28 5, 24 7, 10 9, 6 11, 22 13, 4 15, 20 17,14 19, 2 21, 8 23, 26 25, 18 27, 30 29, 16

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