Factoring Polynomials - Practice/Group Activity

This is an engaging activity for groups of 3 members on factoring polynomials. There are 8 slides with problems as on each page/slide there are given three similar polynomials. The three similar examples are labeled with large alphabetic letters “covered with snow”. Partner A can solve problem A, partner B can solve problem B and partner C can solve problem C. On the next slide partner A will solve problem D, partner B - problem E and partner C will solve problem F and etc.

The problems of 1st and 2nd pages/slides are factoring out by GCF. Problems of page/slide 3 are factoring by grouping. Problems of slide/page 4 are factoring by using the formulas for square of sum and square of difference. Problems of pages/slides 5 and 8 are factoring using the formula for difference of squares, page/slide 6 is factoring quadratic trinomials ax^2+bx+c and page/slide 7 is factoring biquadratic trinomials ax^4+bx^2+c.

Answer keys are included.

NOTE: This product is created as a Google Slides product. I have converted it to PDF item here. I have included 2 PDF files - the one has each slide as a page and the other has two or three slides on a page for easy and more economic printing!