Your enthusiasm is funny. "Do we have a common term? Why yes we do!!!" This is going to be me in my math exam "Oh my gosh it's a common term! now I can find the derivative!"
No you just weren't paying attention in class or you weren't in the mood to take in information, but u came to this video in ur own will of wanting to understand, so it works
Lol. I did well. Staying up isn't the best thing to do and my teachers don't encourage it, but wtf. How else am I supposed to study this sht if I don't understand it in the day? It helps at times. Don't procrastinate - killer of dreams
+Jonathan Cipriano what the hell I just went to scroll in the comments to see if it helped anyone. dude. you know who i am. this is the weirdest coincidence ever.
I have an entrance exam tomorrow which will include simple math. And I had forgotten how to factor that I had learned in school. This helped. Thank you so much :)
I'm in a university taking an intermediate algebra class (elective) because of factoring, and I failed my first test that consisted entirely of what? You guessed it, factoring. This being said, I did enjoy your video, and I feel I've learn how to better execute these satanic equations. Thank you sir, I have a feeling this won't be the only time I'll be referring to this video. xD
Thanks so much I missed my tutoring session and this really helped me even though you're using a completely different method than what my class teaches. You're a lifesaver.
I knew this like the palm of my hand 20 years ago for uni and I realize now that I'm blank like if I had never known about it. Never needed to apply it again, per se, but the analytic process probably conditioned my mind to look at things more smartly. This is like knowing another language, if you don't use it you will forget it. Thanks for the refresh! ^_^
My math teacher didn't let us take notes..... thank you RU-vid xD I completely forgot how to factor, and this way is so much easier than what she taught us. "That's all you have to do? That's all you have to do!"
I dont have a test but I struggled on this for atleast an hour before I found this video. Thank you for making this 15 times easier for me, mroldridge.
Dhina Lingam he was taking 1/2 from everything, and there are 24 halves(1/2) in 12. He was taking out the 1/2 since that’s what they all have in common. Hope this helps I guess I learned after 4 years since I can understand this video a lot more
Im a freshman in college and until i got in college i hadnt had an actual math class since i was a junior in high school. When i was a junior my teacher left for pregnancy leave so i was left with a substitute. Consequently, I never properly learned to factor. After watching countless videos and learning different methods and such i have finally learned to understand it and now have a fighting chance of passing college algebra. Thanks my guy.
this the best method. ive gone through a lot of videos on youtube and i can say that factorizing using this method was by far the easiest way to do it. thank you
This made a lot of sense, thank you. My math teacher is lazy and doesn't go back to lessons, and I kept on being confused because I didn't know how to decompose
Great video. Its a messed up world when I can get 4.0 GPA's in high level accounting/finance/economic courses yet struggle to get a 60% in a gr 12 math equivalent. Perhaps there is a gulf between the quality of Uni profs vs High School teachers. Thanks again, made sense in 10 minutes what many teachers couldn't do in hours.
+william vatsis (Goldensnipez18) you are not pulling out half of twelve, you are pulling out one half or 1/2 from twelve thus dividing 12 by 1/2, which is same as multiplying by two. Another way to look at it is that a new number times 1/2 must give us 12. Such a number would be 24.
I have a quiz tomorrow over this, and stuff to do with log and arithmetic/geometric equations, needless to say, youtube is my saving grace right now. This was so helpful, thank you.
1/2 is a half. There are two halves in a full, which is 1. If there are two halves for every 1, then the formula for finding the amount of halves for every full number is: 2n ... number x 2. The number is 12, so 12 x 2 = 24. I am sorry if I was making it too long and simple, but want to make sure you understood it. I hope I helped
You’re a god, I’m a freshman that got put into Honors Algebra 2 without even taking Algebra 1 or Geometry and I was so lost when my teacher was explaining it
1/2 is a half. There are two halves in a full, which is 1. If there are two halves for every 1, then the formula for finding the amount of halves for every full number is: 2n ... number x 2. The number is 12, so 12 x 2 = 24. I am sorry if I was making it too long and simple, but want to make sure you understood it. I hope I helped
I can't tell u how grateful I am for this video. My maths teacher didn't explain this topic quite well in class and u had absolutely no clue on what I was meant to do, but after watching this video things seem so clear to me. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
+Easy GamingX I can understand these, but for some reason, I always botch everything else that I try to do on my own. It takes me SO long to do my homework because I just can't understand this crap. I don't get it AT ALL. Then they start wanting to you to factor "complex quadratic" equations that are just huge, endless fractions....and if I can't do this, then I really can't do that shit...and I'm starting to just not give a f*ck b/c I'm so frustrated. Ugh.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! My textbook was saying something about prx^2+(ps+qr)x+qs and this just simplifies that concept. Incredible video that got me out of confusion very quickly
I feel like this sort of math is literally for people who think ILLOGICALLY, I'm not kidding, all of these arbitrary spontaneous rules and conditions.. unfortunately for myself I'm a rationalist and this just doesn't click..
bluex217 If it was illogical, "clicking" (i.e. it making systematic sense) wouldn't be possible. I agree that maths is unfortunately often presented as a mess of arbitrary rules that our teachers have to teach us because they're told to.
what helped me was understanding that if you "check" the factored answer by distributing the factored expression back out again, lol basically reverse engineering what we just reverse engineered; then you get the same expression you started with. before I realized this I was like, wait where the fuck did all the numbers go, they cant just evaporate off the paper like that. STILL not sure where they are but i know they're somewhere hiding. its the magic of multiplication and division i guess. you multiply the right numbers again and bam that x is squared once more. it is logical, just not linear. hope that helped m8.
I planned on just watching the first bit, eventually I wanted to 'X' out and stop watching. But I stayed and actually watched the whole thing! Theres something about videos that includes the simple paper and marker that makes me watch it all. I'll be reviewing this for the time being and see if I can use this for future assignments. Thanks a lot!
