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Algetiles

Today in class, Mr. Harbeck gave us small pieces of tiles. We call it Algetiles. We learned something new about algebra using algetiles, and it's something like this:

Terms
n = variable

+ and - = integer (constant)

By using algetiles, we can find out how an algebraic expression looks like.
Example:

Another Example

Think! What did I do to get rid of the coloured squares?