Expanding Brackets

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. understand the distributive property and its application in expanding single  bracket;
  2. expand single brackets by multiplying each term in the bracket by the term outside the bracket;
  3. simplify algebraic expressions obtained from expanding single bracket.

Curriculum Alignment: Key Stage 3: Algebra

  • simplify and manipulate algebraic expressions to maintain equivalence by:
    • collecting like terms
    • multiplying a single term over a bracket
    • taking out common factors
    • expanding products of 2 or more binomials