Lesson Plan: Multiplying and Dividing Square Roots Mathematics • Second Year of Preparatory School
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to multiply and divide square roots and use that to simplify expressions.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- use the property to simplify the multiplication of square roots,
- simplify the multiplication of square roots using distribution (and other properties of multiplication),
- use the property to simplify the multiplication of square roots,
- use the property to simplify the division of square roots (for simple cases).
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the real numbers system,
- properties of multiplication over real numbers,
- the addition and subtraction of radical expressions.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- rationalizing the denominators of radical expressions,
- cube roots.
