By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
- understand the distributive property and its application in expanding single bracket;
- expand single brackets by multiplying each term in the bracket by the term outside the bracket;
- 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