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Lesson 27: Working with Radicals

Topic(s): 
Radicals
The lesson begins with the product and quotient rules for radicals, highlighting the frequently made mistakes of students by overgeneralizing the rules. Simplification examples follow and then sums and differences of radicals are presented. The lesson concludes with rationalizing denominators containing both one and two terms.
Identifier: 
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_Group_SanDiegoCommunityCollegesDevelopmentalMathExchange/Lesson27WorkingwithRadicals?bc=;Coll_Group_SanDiegoCommunityCollegesDevelopmentalMathExchange.IntermediateAlgebra;Coll_Group_SanDiegoCommunityCollegesDevel
Subject: 
Algebra and Number Theory
Algebra
Algebraic Manipulation
Rating: 
Average: 3 (264 votes)
Creator(s): 
Bruce Yoshiwara (Pierce College) and Kathy Yoshiwara (Pierce College)
Cataloger: 
Bohdan Rhodehamel
Publisher: 
Developmental Mathematics Collection
Rights: 
CC BY-NC-SA