Description
Looking for a comprehensive, editable resource to teach your students or child how to solve radical equations? This is a two-part set of scaffolded lesson notes, extra practice (homework) worksheet, and exit tickets to check understanding of the lesson is excellent in helping students achieve mastery of this objective.
Each set of scaffolded notes includes teacher guided examples and a lot of independent practice problems, some of which are end-of-year state test style questions.
Both sets of extra practice (homework) contains two pages of practice problems, followed by an optional last page that contains spiral review of other previously covered Algebra 2 content, including using the quadratic formula to find complex solutions, factoring & solving polynomials, solving systems of equations, and factoring by grouping.
Objective(s):
By the end of these lessons, students will be able to solve radical equations, including equations containing one radical and those with two.
Why Two Parts?
There is a lot of variation in solving radical equations and students need to work though a lot of teacher guided examples before being ready to practice on their own. Instead of having students sit through five straight examples, which would probably be a bit nightmarish for classroom management and engagement, and feel super overwhelming for students, I split the lesson into two parts, which made it possible to better scaffold the lessons and add a lot more independent practice (without making notes/extra practice way too long). I also created two exit tickets so that I could use the data from part one to help me correct any student misunderstandings and emphasize whatever was needed in part two.
In Part One, students are practice solving radical equations containing one radical.
Part Two expands upon students’ knowledge of solving radical equations, having students practice solving radical equations containing two radicals.
What's Included:
- Notes - Part One: 4 pages + answer key
- Notes - Part Two: 3 pages + answer key
- Extra Practice - Part One: 3 pages + answer key
- Extra Practice - Part Two: 3 pages + answer key
- Exit Ticket - Part One: Two identical exit tickets are included (this is meant to be cut in half parts to save paper) + answer key
- Exit Ticket - Part Two: Two identical exit tickets are included (this is meant to be cut in half parts to save paper) + answer key
- Exit Ticket - Alternate, Combined Version: Two identical exit tickets are included (this is meant to be cut in half parts to save paper) that assess student mastery of both parts of these radical equation lessons + answer key
Editable Format:
- As a google doc, all text is editable.
Random Tidbits:
- The inclusion of spiral review questions is something I am extremely passionate about because it emphasizes long-term learning over short-term memorization; it aims to continually keep previously taught content fresh in students' minds. Plus, in spiral review a slew of different content is mixed amongst the questions, requiring students to practice deciding what skill is needed on a problem before solving it, which they often don't need to do when practicing skills in the isolation of a lesson. Furthermore, it makes test/final exam/state test/ACT preparation much easier in the future. I noticed huge gains in students' scores and confidence when I included spiral review throughout my lessons.
- One of the things that I thought to do on each exit ticket that is super simple, but paid off huge dividends relationally with my students, is adding a sentence stem along with asking for their names. 1) Students almost never forgot to write their names on the exit ticket. 2) Daily, students would leave chatting with each other about what they wrote to answer the sentence stem. 3) It gave me something personal to chat with students about the next day as they entered class or I passed back exit tickets and helped me get to know them. 4) Even if students struggled on the exit ticket, I noticed that they never seemed to leave class feeling down or defeated because they could always at least answer the prompt about themselves.
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Description
Looking for a comprehensive, editable resource to teach your students or child how to solve radical equations? This is a two-part set of scaffolded lesson notes, extra practice (homework) worksheet, and exit tickets to check understanding of the lesson is excellent in helping students achieve mastery of this objective.
Each set of scaffolded notes includes teacher guided examples and a lot of independent practice problems, some of which are end-of-year state test style questions.
Both sets of extra practice (homework) contains two pages of practice problems, followed by an optional last page that contains spiral review of other previously covered Algebra 2 content, including using the quadratic formula to find complex solutions, factoring & solving polynomials, solving systems of equations, and factoring by grouping.
Objective(s):
By the end of these lessons, students will be able to solve radical equations, including equations containing one radical and those with two.
Why Two Parts?
There is a lot of variation in solving radical equations and students need to work though a lot of teacher guided examples before being ready to practice on their own. Instead of having students sit through five straight examples, which would probably be a bit nightmarish for classroom management and engagement, and feel super overwhelming for students, I split the lesson into two parts, which made it possible to better scaffold the lessons and add a lot more independent practice (without making notes/extra practice way too long). I also created two exit tickets so that I could use the data from part one to help me correct any student misunderstandings and emphasize whatever was needed in part two.
In Part One, students are practice solving radical equations containing one radical.
Part Two expands upon students’ knowledge of solving radical equations, having students practice solving radical equations containing two radicals.
What's Included:
- Notes - Part One: 4 pages + answer key
- Notes - Part Two: 3 pages + answer key
- Extra Practice - Part One: 3 pages + answer key
- Extra Practice - Part Two: 3 pages + answer key
- Exit Ticket - Part One: Two identical exit tickets are included (this is meant to be cut in half parts to save paper) + answer key
- Exit Ticket - Part Two: Two identical exit tickets are included (this is meant to be cut in half parts to save paper) + answer key
- Exit Ticket - Alternate, Combined Version: Two identical exit tickets are included (this is meant to be cut in half parts to save paper) that assess student mastery of both parts of these radical equation lessons + answer key
Editable Format:
- As a google doc, all text is editable.
Random Tidbits:
- The inclusion of spiral review questions is something I am extremely passionate about because it emphasizes long-term learning over short-term memorization; it aims to continually keep previously taught content fresh in students' minds. Plus, in spiral review a slew of different content is mixed amongst the questions, requiring students to practice deciding what skill is needed on a problem before solving it, which they often don't need to do when practicing skills in the isolation of a lesson. Furthermore, it makes test/final exam/state test/ACT preparation much easier in the future. I noticed huge gains in students' scores and confidence when I included spiral review throughout my lessons.
- One of the things that I thought to do on each exit ticket that is super simple, but paid off huge dividends relationally with my students, is adding a sentence stem along with asking for their names. 1) Students almost never forgot to write their names on the exit ticket. 2) Daily, students would leave chatting with each other about what they wrote to answer the sentence stem. 3) It gave me something personal to chat with students about the next day as they entered class or I passed back exit tickets and helped me get to know them. 4) Even if students struggled on the exit ticket, I noticed that they never seemed to leave class feeling down or defeated because they could always at least answer the prompt about themselves.
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