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Welcome & Framing
Use shapes first, then connect the picture to equations.
Current equationVisual reasoning + explanation
Complete
Start with the picture.
A quadratic can be read as area. In this activity, each expression becomes a tile model, each rectangle becomes a factorization, and each factor becomes a solution.
BuildArrangeFactorSolveExplain
Exploration comes first. The goal is not speed; the goal is to make the equation visible.
x + 4
x + 2
x2
xxxx
xx
11111111