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11. Continue to review learners’ prior understanding of how to use factorisation to solve quadratic equations by setting the challenge ‘If x = – 4 and x = – 1 are the solutions, what was the equation?’ Display the graph of the function on the whiteboard. Draw learners’ attention to the association between the roots of an equation and its factorisation. Now display the equation: x2 + 5x + 1 = 0 and discuss the issue that this cannot be factorised in the same way as the earlier example. Ask learners ……………… Ask learners to work in pairs and match the quadratic equations to the graphs. Emphasise that all the quadratics have a graphical representation.

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