Expressions Containing Several Radical Terms

Help remove some of the confusion surrounding the addition and subtraction of radical numbers with this set skills practice problems. Taken straight from the pages of a math text book, this resource provides learners with numerous...

What is that fraction doing as an exponent? Fun math games prompt learners to practice evaluating radical expressions and expressions containing rational exponents, both in groups and individually.

Many times budding algebrists are fine when plugging specific numbers into expressions, but less certain when the range of acceptable values is undetermined. This detailed presentation helps the class move from the point value to the...

Performing arithmetic with radical expressions is one of those summary tasks pulling together a surprising number of subskills. Learners need to simplify radicals, identify common radicands, perform FOIL, along with applying arithmetic...

This short presentation on multiplying radicals together and with the distributive property does a nice job of working out, step by step, three examples start to finish. Care is taken to separate the radicand multiplication from the...

This light-hearted presentation starts with the basics of multiplying square roots and simplifying them with prime factorization. It then progresses through using these skills to normalize/rationalize rational expressions that contain...

Starting from the basic definition of a radical as a square root, this short but deep presentation walks the learner through irrational numbers, using prime factorization to simplify square roots, and rationalizing denominators. Each...

Rationalizing denominators of radical fractions is one of those skills that pulls together understanding of many different concepts. By carefully scaffolding from easy to hard examples and explaining each example step-by-step, this video...

Radical, dude! The resource provides an explanation on how to simplify radical expressions. It makes clear that radical expressions are ones that are strictly numerical but also are algebraic expressions. One of the problem sets includes...

Combine the given radical expressions. How? Do they have the same radical? Yes. Then they can be combined. Watch this video as the teacher explains how to combine the terms that can be combined and leave the terms as they are that need...