Introduction

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Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...

  • Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context.
  • Recognize when the quadratic formula gives complex solutions, and write them as a ± bi for real numbers a and b.

Essential Questions

  • How do you find the zeros of a function?
  • Why are some solutions extraneous or complex?

Enduring Understandings

  • Students understand the origin of complex numbers and how to manipulate them.
  • Students understand how to solve a variety of functions, and the effects of transformations on functions to describe an object.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Algebra II with Statistics standards: 1, 6, 8, and 11.