The Distributive Principle Summary

The Distributive Property

Summary

removing brackets from an expression is known as expanding the expression.

this usually occurs when a term outside a bracket is multiplied by each of the terms inside the bracket.

the outside term "distributes" itself over the inside terms.

Key Skills
  • multiply a number or term into a bracket
  • expand two brackets
  • recognise the patterns of perfect squares and difference of two squares.

Vocabulary

distributive property, expand, polynomial, brackets, perfect square,difference of two squares.