Multiplying Polynomials Coloring Activity All Things Algebra. In fact, multiplying polynomials is actually pretty easy. Finally, you will learn how to multiply any two polynomials together by distributing terms and collecting like terms in the final answer.
And just as some numerical multiplication is easier than others, so it is with polynomials. Explains and demonstrates how to multiply one-term polynomials ("monomials"), and how to take a monomial or binomial through a parenthetical expression. Some algebra teachers focus on the FOIL method, a technique for multiplying two binomials.
Multiplying binomials (also sometimes called FOILING) is done frequently in This is a special case when you add something and subtract the same thing.
And really, when we do all of these polynomial multiplications, all we're doing is the distributive property Now the next thing I want to do-- and the principal is really the exact same way.
Here are some examples of things that aren't polynomials. They provide a hands on way to explore multiplying polynomials. It's really just an easy way to do the distributive property twice -- which would be really messy and confusing to do.