

This fantastic task comes from Andy Creighton. It’s a great way of making the connections between the tiles, grid model and the algebra. Moreover, it’s also lets pupils observe how the same quadratic can have the factorised, expanded and completed square forms. Andy said the idea for the task is similar to mine: https://startingpointsmaths.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/multiple-representations-of-quadratics/