The same idea as these excellent Don Steward tasks (https://donsteward.blogspot.com/2014/12/algebraic-product-puzzles.html) but extended to include factorising expressions where the common factor includes a variable.
Students insert algebraic expressions into the grid so that each column and row multiplies to give the expression at the end - an example is given on the sheet to hopefully make this clearer. This is a problem solving task involving factorising!
I’ve included a Powerpoint in case you want to make any changes to the task. Answers are provided on the Powerpoint.
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Thank you so much for sharing.
I'm trying these as activity based , preparing card sizes for each puzzle. each group of 4 students will try to solve 9 puzzles within a 40 minutes time frame. It is a puzzle game for them to practise with factorisations.
Thanks so much!
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