<< all these students can learn the factoring, etc. >>
i use the opportunity most textbook authors provide to approach factoring not
as factoring, but as a specific application of the Distributive Theorem,
which will reappear in exponential/multiplication form when the exponential
functions rear their heads... and the Dist Thm simply teaches us that
complicated problems can sometimes be dismantled in several, easier, steps
and then reassembled to produce the overall answer -- a concept my students
can understand they use virtually everyday.
:phil campbell
college o the desert
the palm valley school, ca
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