Algebra 2 - Rational Exponents

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my algebra 2 teacher is so boring and expects us to know how to do the problems just by reading the book.

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My teacher literally just handed us papers with no explaining and I learned all I needed to know in the first 4 minutes of this video.

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“Can anyone tell me what to do here?”
“Cry.”

I wish ALL math teachers taught like this!

Welcome back Mr Headache long time no see. I need to rewatch this whole thing all over again :(

Thanks for keeping it fun and interesting, my mind doesn't wander much watching your videos even at 11 at night

At 2:23 is when I learned it, that was fast. He did it so well. Thank you.

You make math fun again...unlike my current college algebra teacher.

I was sick today and missed the math lesson. Thankfully I saw that my teacher only assigned 1 assignment instead of 2, which she usually does.
This video helped a ton!! Thanks!
Also I would so be like this teacher if I were a teacher. I would arrive dressed in one of those T.rex costumes and just act normally like nothing was weird.

hahah i would remind you of yourself if i was your student. if i ever tought, id be the same way thats how my personality is. but im aspiring to be a genetic engineer, and these videos really help i need to take calc 1-3 so i really thank you man. i wish you were my teacher when i was in highskool lol good teaching style keep it up man

5 years later and still the best teacher

I’m like 5 years late.. but at 13:49 how did we get the numerator 3 in the number 3 to the 3/6 power.. I’m confused on that

At 5:45 it would've been more intuitive to say to envision a cube with the surface area of "8" or Cube Area = 8 units, ...when you say "something" x "something" x "something" it because like a mantra without application.

its just for better communication, you could also but put one at the end but you have to put a multiplication sign (times sign y)

Hate to throw my teacher out, but this teacher is so well at describing these things, I’m a freggin Freshmen in high-school doin this stuff in Algebra 1. Anyways, good explaining man!!

wish our teachers would teach it in this fun way

Magic. But imagine teaching this in a ghetto inner city school while breaking up fights between roots and exponents

such a great teacher!!

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I learned this in algebra 1. It's fairly easy once you recognize your index and radicand.

@yaymath Thank you so much, this video helped me understand ration exponents far more than my teacher was capable of teaching in class.

Great teacher..He refreshed exponents for me.

You make the problems really easy and simple to understand unlike my algebra 2 teacher thanks for the video 👍

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Thank you for these videos. My college math classes are online through Aleks, and his lack of verbal explanations has been driving me crazy. It basically shows you an example, then figures you understand, and then gives you a completely different problem that has not been explained. Finals are in 2 hours and I'm finally understanding what this stupid program has been trying to tell me about radicals.

4throot of 5 and square root of x, can we still simplify it? like putting both in a single radical sign leaving y out?

Fun teacher, funny also and gets the point across. Awesome.

Great Lesson for me in preparation for the GRE. Thanks I learned a lot from this.

Enjoy watching your videos. You do a great job of engaging your students. Out of curiosity, what grade are you teaching in this video? Thanks.

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Look at the time 15:24. Why wouldnt you divide 3/3=1 in the final answer

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Kooolll: but I suggest starting with the introduction of the laws of indices ...which has the core inherent of the formulas

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I didn't come here to learn. This was just really entertaining to watch.

Dear Mr. Mathematician, while doing 8 rooth of 81 and 6 th rooth of 3 while simplifying, it came up with a numerator of 3 and denominator of 3, I was thinking that would become 1....apple over apple = 1 house over house =1 3 over 3 = 1...yet you said it = 3. I believe you but that was my thought as you were simplifying the problem.......so I was thinking it simplified to 1 and 1/3. I know ....i shouldn't think to much.....love your teaching style....

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Can you do more problems with negative exponents?

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With the final problem in this lesson, I noticed a really quick way to arrive at this after seeing the multiplication by say, the 1/8th power. The 8th root of y^8 is y because 8/8 = 1 so that's just y, and the 8th root of x^4 is 8/4 = 2 is the sqrt of x, and the 8th root of 5^2 (kept under the radical this time) is 8/2 or 4, so 4th root of 5.
That might not explain what's going on, but it's really fast way to break things down, at least for me. If this is horribly wrong then I banish myself from the math dimension and enter the shame dimension. D=

3:23 that priceless facial expression love this guy

my teacher likes to change the names of things if she doesn't like the real name! it's so annoying! she calls rational exponents "Prime Base". I was struggling with this and it took me ages to find videos about it to help because i wasn't searching the right name. Great video!

I've got a question, how did you get the bottom number 6√3?

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Dude thanks for the videos man it helped me a lot

For that last problem wouldn't it be y(4th root)[5x^2]? Couldn't you square the x and combine it with the 5?

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Great video, I'm in 6th grade and I understand alot of it.Thank you!

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I love that he points out the students that look confused. Most teachers are like: Any questions? *looks around and ignores overly confused students* Alright, moving on.

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Thank you, you helped me a lot...

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