Each activity takes five hours, over one or two weeks. The first part of an activity consists of approximately one hour of reading or hands-on work with a simulation or instructional material. A second hour is devoted to reflection and composition and posting on the Web. The eight high school teachers seated around the seminar table had ready answers.
Factors are multipliers.
When you multiply them, one gets the original back again. This was a well trodden path. General chat brought a few examples of factoring methods and procedures to multiply polynomials. Finding inquiry in the pedagogical graveyard of algebraic polynomials was our task. This kick off meeting, held during an inservice day, held much expectation.