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Lesson 6.3 Radicals and Rational Exponents

This document provides an overview of a lesson on radicals and rational exponents. The learning target is to evaluate expressions using nth roots and rational exponents. The agenda includes introducing the topic through an activity, examples, a key idea, and a summary. Vocabulary includes nth root. Students are assigned homework problems from their textbook involving radicals and rational exponents.

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Lesson 6.3 Radicals and Rational Exponents

This document provides an overview of a lesson on radicals and rational exponents. The learning target is to evaluate expressions using nth roots and rational exponents. The agenda includes introducing the topic through an activity, examples, a key idea, and a summary. Vocabulary includes nth root. Students are assigned homework problems from their textbook involving radicals and rational exponents.

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Chapter 6 Exponential

Equations & Functions


Lesson 6.3 Radicals and Rational
Exponents

Picture this.
A landscaping question
Im planning to have 8 yards of mulch delivered to
my house in the spring.
What do you think 8 yards of mulch looks like?
Would it fit in our classroom?
How about in your closet?
How about in your locker?

Do Now

Start Thinking

Today
Learning Target:
I can evaluate expressions using nth roots and rational exponents

Vocabulary: nth root


Agenda:

Picture This
Do Now
Start Thinking
Introduction Activity 1
Example 1
Key Idea
Examples 2, 3 & 4
Summary

Homework: 1 5,12, 13 25 (odd), 26 29, 30 33 on p. 280-281 in


your textbook

If n is a positive integer that is greater than 1 and a is a


real number then,
n

1
n

a =a

where n is called the index, a is called the radicand, and the


symbol is called the radical. The left side of this equation
is often called the radical form and the right side is often
called the exponent form.
4

10

16

8x

16

1/4

1/10

(8x)

x^2+ y^2

1/2

(x^2+y^2)

Roots" (or "radicals") are the "opposite" operation of


applying exponents; you can "undo" a power with a radical.
For instance, if you square 2, you get 4, and if you "take
the square root of 4", you get 2; if you square 3, you get 9,
and if you "take the square root of 9", you get 3:
22 = 4, so 4 = 2
The "" symbol is called the "radical symbol. (Technically,
just the "check mark part of the symbol is the radical; the
line across the top is called the ( "vinculum".) 9 The
expression is read as "root nine, "radical nine", or "the square
root of nine".

Largest cube is - _______How did you determine this?

Activity 2
When you raise the nth root of a number to
the nth power, you get the original number
Activity 1
The cube root of a
cubed number is the
number.

Activity 2
The cube of the cube
root of a number is
the number.
(3
)3 = 8

Note the distinction

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