Week: 5 option 5

Okay, well I had a hard time understanding the whole concept of quadratics and the factoring or distributing by guessing.  I kept thinking over and over that there must be some other way, some structured way to do it but turns out, there really isn't.  I mean there is that strategy that the younger generations use, but to me it doesn't always make sense and it still is mostly guessing.  I guess it wasn't just one little spark that I was able to recognize this fact, but happened over the gradual time we were learning this in class.  For me it feels confusing since usually there are structured ways on how something can be done and not simply left to guessing, but I have learned to accept that for this instance there simply is not a rule by rule way to follow.