maths y8 algebra factorise

What you'll learn

1. 1

   Imagine you have 12 apples and 8 bananas. You can group them into bags with the same number of each fruit.

2. 2

   What is the biggest number that divides both 12 and 8?

3. 3

   Drag the numbers to group 6x + 9 into a bag with the biggest common factor.

4. 4

   Let's factorise 6x + 9 together.

5. 5

   What goes in the brackets when you factorise 4x + 12? (Common factor is 4)

6. 6

   Factorise 5x + 20 by dragging the correct parts into the bag.

7. 7

   If you factorise 8x + 12, what is the common factor?