And I think this is one of those places where, for some students, math starts to fall apart. They can get the right answer. And that feels great, that overshadows the creeping dislocation between WHAT do to do to "get the answer" and WHY doing that step is logical.
"Great you've factored it what do you do next?"
It's really common for a student to successfully factor a quadratic (the hard part IMO) but then just stop and not know what comes next.
I find this alarming! 2/
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