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Lesson 27: Working with Radicals
Description: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.
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Subject(s):- Mathematics
- Mathematics > Algebra
- College & Beyond
- Curriculum: Lesson Plan
- From: San Diego Area Knowledge Exchange for Developmental Math (SAKE)
- Contributed By: SAKE Owner SAKE Owner
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.

