Mr. Appledorf's On-Line PowerPoint Math Lessons
Square Roots of Variable Expressions
Objectives:
Students will apply the product and quotient properties of square roots to variable expressions and will explain when and why the results must be expressed as absolute values.
NCTM Standards:
Students make and investigate mathematical conjectures.
California Content Standards:
(2.0) Students understand and use such operations as taking the opposite, finding the reciprocal, taking a root, and raising to a fractional power.
Slides:
* Positive and Negative
* Another Reason
* Monomial Products and Quotients
* Irrational Roots
* Roots of Polynomials
* Even and Odd Powers
* Practice
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