Unit 9: Radicals & Rational Exponents
A radical operation is the reciprocal operation of an exponent operation (power operations). This unit teaches how to perform radical operations and the laws concerning them.
Unit Goals
- Understand principal roots and simplify radical expressions.
- Perform arithmetic with radicals (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and rationalize denominators.
- Work with rational exponents and convert between radical and exponent forms.
- Solve radical equations and check for extraneous solutions.
- Graph basic radical functions and describe domain, range, and transformations.
- Introduction to Square Roots and Radicals
- Simplifying Radical Expressions
- Operations with Radicals (Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide)
- Rational Exponents
- Solving Radical Equations
- Graphing Radical Functions