Simplifying Radicals Speed Dating

The speed dating technique described.

I put together this Simplifying Radicals speed dating activity. It does include cube and fourth roots, which may be above the curriculum. It’s in Word format. Radical Speed Dating

Radical SNAP

Over on my own blog, I described a card game I saw in a classroom recently. It is for students to practice converting from mixed radicals to entire radicals and vice versa. It is based on the card game SNAP.

Here’s the entire post.

I take no credit for this idea at all. I was in a classroom this morning, and the teacher had the students play a game of Radical SNAP. The students were totally engaged, and were enthusiastically converting between mixed and entire radicals. It’s pretty simple to set up.

Materials: You need one deck of cards with the 10, J, Q and K removed for each pair of students, and one giant square root symbol per pair of students. This one should do the trick: Giant Root

Pair off the students in your class. Each pair gets a deck of cards, and should remove the 10, J, Q and K. Shuffle the remaining cards, and deal them so that each person has half the deck, face down.

Mixed to Entire

The students flip over their top cards. The student on the left puts his in front of the radical, and the student on the right puts hers under the radical. The first student to correctly convert the mixed radical to an entire radical wins the round.

Entire to Mixed

The students flip over their top cards, and put them both under the radical. The first student to correctly simplify the radical or to identify that it can’t be simplified wins the round.

Rational Exponents Jigsaw

Chris Hunter shares this blog post about how he creates Tarsia jigsaws.

In another post, he shares this particular jigsaw on rational exponents.

Rational Exponents – MATHO

Chris Hunter has created and shared several MATHO review activities. A complete list and explanation about how to use them is provided at this link.

If you know how to use them, you can jump right to this one on rational exponents.

Simplifying Radicals – MATHO

Chris Hunter has created and shared several MATHO review activities. A complete list and explanation about how to use them is provided at this link.

If you know how to use them, you can jump right to this one on simplifying radicals.

Exponent Laws – MATHO

Chris Hunter has created and shared several MATHO review activities. A complete list and explanation about how to use them is provided at this link.

If you know how to use them, you can jump right to this one on exponent laws.

Squares and Square Roots MATHO

Chris Hunter has created and shared several MATHO review activities. A complete list and explanation about how to use them is provided at this link.

If you know how to use them, you can jump right to this one on squares and square roots.

Exponent Rules Review Game

A blogger going by the name of Simplifying Radicals provides the templates and descriptions for how to play an exponent rules review game.

Exponent Rules Row Game

The “row game” technique is explained in this post.

The link below will take you to a row game that Lisa Henry created for exponent laws. It makes a great review, check for understanding, practice exercise, and formative assessment tool.

Lisa’s Exponent Rules Row Game