Roots and Radicals
Roots and Radicals introduces students to rational exponents and helps with studying how to simplify and otherwise manipulate expressions with radicals and roots using their properties and rules. Students will learn through practice problems like those found in their homework how to rationalize, combine, expand radicals. Topics include:
- Introduction to Radicals
- Radicals and Absolute Values
- Rational Exponents
- Evaluating Rational Exponents
- Rational Exponents with Negative Coefficients
- Rules for Rational Exponents
- Simplifying Radicals using Rational Exponents
- Multiplying Radicals of the Same Root
- Multiplying Radicals of Different Roots
- Rationalizing the Denominator with Higher Roots
- Rationalizing a Denominator with a Binomial
- Solving an Equation with Radicals
- Introduction to Imaginary Numbers
- Adding and Subtracting Complex Numbers
- Multiplying Complex Numbers
- Dividing Complex Numbers
- Powers of i