Outside the Box: Teaching Factoring to a Student with ADHD

When working with an ADHD student, it is important to first understand how each topic is taught in class, then to steer the student into procedures that fit better with a profile of distractibility.  It is especially important to consider the procedure while teaching the factoring of polynomials to a student with attention deficits because sometimes in class factoring is taught in a rote, formulaic manner.