Algebra 2 - Factoring Trinomials - Berry Method 

I'm an RN going back to school at the age of 37 to get my BSN and college algebra is required. I've not done math since 1999 and have been struggling because I'm in class with a bunch of kids that have just graduated high school so they remember the basic functions which I have clearly forgotten. I ran across your tutorial videos while trying to learn how to factor and solve radical equations and it helped this old gal too. I really wish you taught college algebra. THANK YOU!!!

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The method works because, at the first step of using factors (3x ...)(3x ...), the expression was actually made larger by a factor of 3 (this is why it looks wrong to start with : 9x^2 instead of 3x^2). The final step of this method just removes this additional factor. Keep maths alive and fun! Well done.

@9:40 you can tell you need two different signs because ax^2-b-c where negative c means different signs. EVERYTIME -c means difference signs result. so +b-c means largerResult = positive, smallerResult = negative. and vis versa for -b-c...because -2-1=1. However, when c is positive then the signs of the resulting factor are the same. IE: -b+c means same signs, both negative. and +b+c same signs, both positive. Hope this helps anyone who didn't already know :-)

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LOL i'm laughing at the sounds your class makes when the eraser walks toward the board. love the way you teach. this method is so much better than the one my teacher's currently teaching lol.

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I was trying to work on a similar problem for over an hour. I watch this video and was able to solve my problem in minutes. Thank you !!!

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Great video. Been struggling with this factoring for a few weeks with my son. This Berry method is very simple, easy to use, and literally takes the guess work out of factoring trinomials. Thanks!

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yay math. i use your video alot for my algebra 2 class. Sometimes the students in the background are annoying but presentation is excellent. thanks for the new method of factoring

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Great method. The following is a minor tweak as a suggestion. Using the first example in the video, 3x^2 - 20x + 28: With the first step being to write down: ( 3x + ) ( 3x + ) If you wrote down " / 3" at the right side of the above, i.e. "divided by 3", then the expression would always be mathematically "correct". This would also serve the purpose of telling the student what factor needs to come out of the brackets near the end of the process. Just to highlight, I am suggesting the first step be to write down: (3x + ) ( 3x + ) / 3

Thanks Yaymath. At first I did not understand how the GCF numbers "went away". Consider the first problem 3x^2 -20x +28. You write (3x ) (3x ). That doesn't make sense cause it equals 9x^2. (We ignore that for now.) But notice, you have added an extra "3" factor. Write it to the left as "3*". When you GCF (3x-6) by 3, you get 3(x-2). That 3 can be removed due to the extra 3 above, giving the answer (x-2) (3x-14). They cancel each other. In the second problem, there are two GCF factors (2 and 4) that cancel the extra "8*".

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Thank you SO much for teaching this method!! My school only teaches Reverse-FOIL (or guessing) and Grouping. Neither of these methods clicked for me. THIS - The Berry Method - makes sense. THANK YOU!!!

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Thanks so much for this ! I'm in trigonometry right now and we needed to review factoring since a lot of students forgot how to do it, including me (we haven't done it in almost a year ) and this really helped ! A+++ I'm glad I found this ! And so good to see that you make learning it fun while also getting the message across ! Thanks once again ! :D

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Better than a book!

This was absolutely helpful. My teacher taught this as the AC method, I believe, but I just couldn't follow. This is straightforward and better for what I'm used to while factoring. Thank you and your class for doing this!! It's a huge help!

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I am not fond of the AC method, especially when there are large numbers, but I was glad to see you tell people what to do with the common factor you took out. The claim of a Berry Method had me wondering, but you pulled it off, at least for using the AC Method. Interesting approach using the leading coefficient twice and then taking out common factor. Thanks

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This guy is freaking awesome! even tho im in college calculus I still had problem with factoring but this man changed my life for ever... thank you

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Thank you so much for this video. It is going to help me pass my factoring test today. (Summer class in developmental math.) This method is different than my professors, but I feel like I finally get it!

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This guy is so helpful. My teacher just talks and loses me

you made this video so fun and funny to learn with. I hated factoring trinomials, but now I am getting the hang of it thanks to you! I WISH I WAS IN YOUR CLASSROOM! lmaoo

Thanks for a new method (Berry Method) for teaching factoring. I'll try it out in class, I'm sure it will click with some students. I'll be sure to give you credit.

I actually enjoyed this a lot, I didn't really understand in class the way my professor was teaching it, so it helped me a lot. I have a worksheet to finish, I hope she won't mind that I found a different way to do it than what she taught. :)

This video has helped me out. I was struggling on how to factor so my teacher recommendated to watch this video to the class XD

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This is also called the Lazy AC method (typically uses “The Big X”, but you just wrote them out, same thing).

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i realized that this is the longer and more confusing method of the SMILE method. bwahaha. but props to the teacher, man he's awesome. i wish he was my teacher.

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At the beginning of the problem, you deliberately have an extra factor of three since you use 3x in both sets of parentheses. So at 5:55, instead of thinking of it as *factoring* out the 3, I think of it as *dividing* out the extra factor of three introduced at the start.

thx for the review because i had my text books taken away because the year ended and its regents soon also this is what i usually use its just nice to see it again from many people like you but your the most fun :D

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I'm having such a hard time factoring but this method has really helped me thank u!!

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I have a suggestion. Overall I like the basic approach especially the start with the same first factors - like in the 2nd example you put (8x )(8x ). Put I don't like the erasing of the common factors in the end. It feels like a strange mechanical step with no reason behind it. However, an easy fix would be to explain that (8x )(8x ) has an extra factor of 8, so put (1/8) as a factor to compensate for the extra factor of 8. Then the 1/8 will cancel those mysterious extra factors.

Omg!!! I have always had a problem with factoring since taking algebra 2 my sophomore year! I've done pre-calc my junior year, and now I'm in ap calc as a senior, Factoring was always really hard for me until now☺️☺️☺️ I'm so glad I found this video

Thank you, thank you! This is like a better a(c) method. I love the the further factoring in the end.

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+Lycan Viking, to be able to factor your problem 80x^2+68x+12, you first have to factor out a gcf which would be 4 so you would be left with 4(20x^2+17x+3) Now you may proceed to the berry method 4(20x+5)(20x+12) which would reduce down to 4(4x+1)(5x+3) and that will be your final answer, ps you would not drop the 4 in the final answer it would stay outside because it is the gcf that you factored out

THANK YOU you have made factoring polynomials so much easier for me. :)

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Was looking for another method of factoring and this seems pretty useful. I really like the energy you bring. Only catch I noticed is you can't always remove the greatest common factor. eg - 12m^2 +20m - 8. Sometimes you need to pick a smaller common factor so that when you expand the bracket back out you get your original term.

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