Synthetic Division: How to understand It by not doing it. (TANTON Mathematics) @DrJamesTanton
Synthetic Division: How to understand It by not doing it. (TANTON Mathematics)  @DrJamesTanton
Uploaded February 2010 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
So many teachers teach their students a completely mysterious and strange algorithm for dividing polynomials by linear terms. Why does it work? What if I want to divide by something other than a linear term. Here I discuss a general method where UNDERSTANDING outweighs and outdoes memorisation!
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