Lesson 1: Quick Review

• Adding and subtracting integers

• Multiplying and dividing integers

• BEDMAS

• The distributive property

• The distributive property – simplifying fractions

• Factoring expressions

Lesson 2: Linear Systems

• Introduction to linear systems

• Solution of a linear system

• Graphing and solving linear systems (using x- and y- intercepts)

• Graphing and solving linear systems (using slope / y - intercept)

• How to check solutions

• Solving linear systems by substitution

• Solving linear systems by elimination

Lesson 3: Polynomials

• Review of factors

• Multiplying polynomials

• Multiplying a binomial by a monomial

• Multiplying two binomials

• Multiplying a trinomial by a binomial (vice versa)

Lesson 4: Factoring Trinomials of the Form ax² + bx + c

• Factoring trinomials (when “a” = 1)

• Factoring trinomials (when “a” ≠ 1), examples where “a” is factorable

• Factoring trinomials (when “a” = a negative)

• Factoring trinomials (when “a” ≠ 1, “a” is not factorable)

Lesson 5: Solving Trinomials, ax² + bx + c = 0

• Recognition of trinomials

• Strategies for solving trinomials

• Recognizing difference of squares

• Factorizing difference of squares

• Solving difference of squares

Here are a few sample questions for you to practice. The answers are given at the end.