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Lesson 5 - Lesson Plan

Objective:

Students will perform operations which include square roots.

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Procedure / Development of Learning Activity:

1. Review basic square roots first before learn how to solve sums, differences, and products.
2. Tell the students about the rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The radicals can be added or subtracted only if they both are the same identity. The radicals can be multiplied or divided no matter if they are the same or not.
3. Apply the Distributive Property to the radical expressions and simplify them.
4. Apply the FOIL method to the radical expressions and simplify them.
   

Examples:

Harv in English This length of this lesson is 15:16.

Steven in ASL This length of this lesson is 20:20.

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