I simply teach my students to express radicals in the form of their
exponential brethern. The students already understand exponents so they
tend to feel little in the way of discomfort (excepting those that didn't
bother to master exponents when they should have).
Brian Goetz
Bay de Noc Community College
> I am getting ready to start the chapter on radicals in Intermediate Algebra.
> I am going to put aside how I usually teach this chapter and ask for some
> ideas from all of you. This can be such a complicated and nerve wracking
> chapter for them.....and good ideas out there????
>
> Jodi Cotten
> Graduate Student
> Department of Mathematics
> Northern Arizona University
>
> Jodi
> Galations 5:22
>
> "Mathematics is the finest training for the mind." Plato
>
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