Comments Lab

Once students have learned about combining like terms, expressions, and distribution, this lesson will help solidify their knowledge by deconstructing expressions into two factors. This lesson reviews factors, how to find factors with variables, and allows students to discover a method to factoring an algebraic expression.

This powerpoint models the distributive property and how it relates to decomposing numbers. It can be used with McDougal Littell Lesson 2.1 but is also a stand alone lesson. The 14 slides include fill in the blanks, definitions, real-world modeling, and an exit ticket.