FORUM DESCRIPTION This week's discussion topic is about factorization. It's one of the most important topics in College Algebra, most of the topics are built on it. The question for the week is the strategy for factoring an algebraic expression.? Here is an outline: 1. Common factors 2. An algebraic expression with two terms (e.g. ), what methods are there? 3. An algebraic expression with three terms, how can you factor? 4. An algebraic expression with four or more terms, what method could you use? ources aries