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Week: 10 Teacher: Ervin Ramirez Subject: Precalculus Grade: 11th Unit: III
LEARNING
DAY TOPIC ACTIVITY MATERIALS ASSESSMENT
OBJECTIVES
Students have most recently studied the complex
numbers. So I have to tell them that now we are
back on more familiar ground, the real numbers.
Tell students that nth roots will be defined using
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the equation x^n = c.
MONDAY Define and apply Notebook
Radicals and Ask students how they can verify that the solution
10:30-11:15 rational and Calculator
Rational is reasonable. Encourage them to make a habit of Evalutation.
11:15-12:00 irrational exponents. Ruler
exponents verifying whether solutions are reasonable, using
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known powers of integers.
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Work in groups
Students simplify each expression.
Evaluate the nth roots.

Note that in the definition of rational exponents, k

must be positive. If k were allowed to be 0 or
negative, then meaningless expressions of the
forms 0-sqrt(c) and -3-sqrt(c) would occur.
Ask students to evaluate without calculator.
Emphasize that the laws of exponents are now
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TUESDAY stated for rational exponents. Use numerical
Simplify expressions Notebook
9:45 – Radicals and examples such as these to illustrate some of the
containing radicals Calculator Practice from the
10:30 Rational laws.
or rational Ruler textbook.
10:30-11:15 exponents
exponents. Markers
In groups:
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Simplify expressions with rational exponents.

Students may have rationalized denominators in

the past to transform fractions with radicals, but
this is likely to be their first experience with
rationalizing a numerator.
 Individually: Solve
Exercices from 5.1 page 334.

Students will better understand properties of the

graph of f(x)=a^x by completing the following
pencil-and-paper activity.
Copy and complete each table. Then plot the
points to graph each function.
After the graph students will answer these
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questions in groups (2 or 3):
WEDNES Graph and identify Notebook
What is the y-intercept for each graph? Evaluation and
DAY Exponential transformations of Calculator
Will either graph go below the x-axis? practice from the
8:00-8:45 functions exponential Ruler
Are both functions in the form f(x)=a^x? textbook
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For g(x), is a >1 or is a<1?
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Is g(x) increasing or decreasing?
What happens to g(x) as x approaches –infinity?
For h(x), is a>1 or is a<1?
Is h(x) increasing or decreasing?
What happens to h(x) as x approaches infinity?
Explain why a different from 1 and zero.
Teacher explain the exponential growth and
decay in which a quantity increases or decreases
by a fixed factor. Textbook
Use exponential Example of Finance and Population growth. Notebook
FRIDAY Homework and
Exponential functions to solve Radioactive decay and other exponential Calculator
11:30-12:15 practice from the
functions application functions. Ruler
12:15-1:00 textbook.
problems. Suggest to students that they research the problem Markers
of nuclear waste disposal, focusing on what is Whiteboard
being done in their state, in the country, and in the
world.