High School Mathematics

High School students in Algebra 2 have completed a study of radical equations, culminating in an extensive check for understanding. Students had three days to demonstrate their understanding of the wide range of concepts studied including, imaginary numbers, rationalizing radical denominators, determining the types of solutions to quadratic equations, rational exponents, and calculating solutions to radical equations.

Then students completed a brief review of exponential functions, ultimately arriving at logarithms as the way to solve for a variable as an exponent. Properties of logarithms and solving exponential equations using logarithms were the next math practices studied. Below you can see some students playing logarithm war, using their knowledge of exponents to solve logarithms.

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