Today Carson and I met on teams. We discussed the concept of Greatest Common Factor with numbers first. I gave Carson the example of 24 and 36. We discussed how these numbers have common factors 2, 3, and 4, however these are not the GREATEST. Carson considered other factors and we agreed that 12 was the GCF. Then I asked Carson what if we considered 24x and 36x, in that case what would the GCF be? We determined 12x is the GCF. We applied this concept to other terms with higher powers of x. Then instead of factoring just 2 terms, we practiced factoring 3 terms. Carson did a great job. He had difficulty when I introduced negatives and he had to consider flipping the sign.