Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Area Algebra Tiles

Click to practice finding area as a sum and as a product.

The rectangle to the left is :

(x + 1) (y + 2) ➫ area as a product
xy + 2x + y + 2 ➫ area as a sum
so.....
(x + 1) (y + 2) = xy + 2x + y + 2

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