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I love using this graphic organizer in my classes to help my students master the skill of factoring trinomials of the form ax^2+bx+c. I teach factoring by grouping for all trinomials at first, before allowing my students to discover the "shortcut" when a=1. By doing this, I find that it helps my students truly understand why the "shortcut" works. When I use this graphic organizer with my students, I print a class set, put them in page protectors (I ordered them cheap on Amazon) and give them a d