Introduction
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Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
- Solve quadratic equations with real coefficients that have complex solutions.
Essential Questions
- How do you find the zeros of a function?
- Why are some solutions extraneous or complex?
- How can you use functions to model real life problems?
Enduring Understandings
- Student understand the origin of complex numbers and how to manipulate them.
- Student understand the properties of and how to solve equations involving the different families of functions.
The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Algebra II with Statistics standards: 1, 6, 8, 11, and 12.