Expanding and Factorising
Further Expansion

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 the Highest Common Factor (HCF)
• Factorising by sum and product {Part 1}
• Factorising by sum and product {Part 2}

When multiplying brackets together, everything from one bracket must multiply everything from the second bracket. If there are more than two sets of brackets, then multiply two brackets together at a time. Don't forget to simplify by collecting like terms.