Lesson Plan: Oblique Asymptotes
This lesson plan includes the objectives and prerequisites of the lesson teaching students how to find the equations of the oblique asymptotes of functions, especially rational functions.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- recognize when a rational function has an oblique asymptote,
- find the equations of oblique asymptotes by polynomial division.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- algebraic fractions,
- asymptotes,
- polynomial division and synthetic polynomial division.