to all of the people saying “its easy, I can do it in my head” I’m not talking about factoring an orderly quadratic I’m talking about simplifying a monstrosity like this:
you really think you could simplify THIS in your head
(tbf this isn’t actually that hard of a problem, but like, you get what I mean?)
fun fact:
trying to do algebra without writing things down is like trying to assemble something in your hands without a table
guess what happens when you try to do that with something big and complicated
you drop and break stuff
congratulations, I just made you do algebra for no reason >:D
(do you agree that writing it down makes it easier?)