High School · Arithmetic with Polynomials and Rational Expressions

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSA.APR.A.1

Understand that polynomials form a system analogous to the integers, namely, they are closed under the operations of addition, subtraction, and multiplication; add, subtract, and multiply polynomials.

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Lessons that teach this standard

• Adding and Subtracting Polynomials

  What a polynomial is, how to read its degree and leading coefficient, why only like terms combine, and why subtracting means distributing the minus sign to every term.

• Multiplying Polynomials: The Box Method and FOIL

  How to multiply polynomials with the distributive property, why the box method never misses a term, where FOIL comes from, and the two special products to know.