We began by working a 5.1 & 5.2 Mixed Review online. JPaul practiced converting fraction exponents to roots and evaluating them. He also practiced rationalizing roots that have radicals in the denominator. He completed the assignment at 100%. We then did another mock-quiz. Of the 10 questions, he got 7 correct, 1 partially correct, 2 incorrect. I assigned him practice problems to reiterate the concepts he has the most trouble with.
We then moved on to 5.4 Solving Radical Equations. (We are skipping 5.3 for now). JPaul found this to be an easy lesson. A challenge for him comes when it’s time to check his solutions. Sometimes there are extraneous solutions which need to be eliminated. So he will continued to be reminded to check his solutions once he is done with a computation.