Add another method to your arsenal by solving quadratics using completing the square. Scholars learn to solve quadratic equations that cannot be solved by factoring. The preferred method for this video is completing the square.

Concepts

solving quadratics, completing the square, quadratic equations

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Provide the video to struggling learners

Classroom Considerations

• Note that the video shows brackets when applying inverse operations to both sides of the equations, which is not standard practice
  
• Pupils should know how to complete the square, perhaps from the Completing the Square - Quadratics video of the same series
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Video lists steps to solving quadratics using the completing the square process

Cons

• All steps of the work appear at once, making it difficult to follow
  

Common Core

HSA-REI.B.4.a