Challenge

A man walks into a room of 9 people. He

shakes everybody’s hand.
Then each of the guests shake everyone’s
hand.

How many handshakes are there in

total?

How do you know?

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 Quadratic Expressions
Key Learning Points
By the end of this lesson you will:
- be able to expand two brackets to get
a quadratic expression
Key words: quadratic expression, expand, brackets, grid, FOIL

2 ( 2x + 3) 2 ( 2x - 3) 3 (x - 3) 4 ( 8 – 3x)

3x - 9 32 – 12x 4x + 6 4x - 6
 Discussion
(x + 1) ( x + 1) = x2 + x + x + 1

(x + 1) (x – 1) = x2 + x – x – 1

(x – 1) (x + 1) = x2 – x + x – 1

(x – 1) (x – 1) = x2 – x – x + 1

Why?

3 minutes – turn to the person next to you

 Success Criteria
Grade D: I can collect some like terms to
write expressions in their simplest form
Grade C: I can expand a single bracket and
write it in its simplest form
Grade B: I can expand two brackets and
write them it in its simplest form
Grade A: I can expand two brackets where
the x coefficients are not 1.
 Expanding two brackets
(x + 2) (x + 3)

Method 1 (GRID)

x +2
x x2 + 2x
+3 + 3x +6
Expanding two brackets
(x + 2) (x + 3)

Method 2 (FOIL)

First
Outer
Inner
Last
 Expanding two brackets
(x + 2) (x + 3) (x + 2) (x + 3)
Method 1 (GRID) Method 2 (FOIL)

First
x +2 Outer
x x2 + 2x Inner
+3 + 3x +6 Last

x2 + 3x + 2x + 6
 Try it for yourself...
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Exercise 5:4

Extension:
(x + 2) (3x – 1)
2( x + 2) + 3(3x – 1)

How are these two expressions similar

and how do they differ?
 Reflection
What have I learnt? Try these...

What grade am I (x + 1) ( x + 2)
working at? How do
I know? (2x + 1) (2x + 3)

What do I need to do (3x – 1) (2x – 4)

to make progress?