Factoring Quadratic Equations

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for solving quadratic equations by factoring? Well bingo! Look no further as Factoring Quadratic Activity Puzzles, for CCSS REI.4, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for high school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review game exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention, or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this task as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to study and improve their skills.

This puzzle set includes 20 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a foldable bin or tub for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a craft project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a spiral notebook or journal as a model reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers factoring quadratic polynomials with a=1. Students will need to find the x intercepts by solving the equations though factoring. By solving the problems to sort and match the puzzle pieces, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your students will love to practice and learn to develop strategies to solve and factor quadratics with this resource!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant High School Algebra Common Core Standard REI.B.4
Solve quadratic equations in one variable.