Expanding and Factorising
Simplifying By Collecting Like Terms

Expanding and Factorising

Pre-Test

• Pre-Test

​Algebra skills {revision}

• Substitution
• Simplifying by collecting like terms

​​Algebra skills

• Rearranging formulas

​Expansion

• The distributive law
• FOIL expansion
• Special situations
• Further expansion

Factorisation

• Factorising By HCF
• Factorising by sum and product {Part 1}
• Factorising by sum and product {Part 2}

Algebraic expressions can often be simplified by adding or subtracting like terms. We call this process collecting like terms.