Day 38 - Synthetic Division

Students seemed to do well with synthetic division. I feel as though they will do well on the exam covering this material. The standard that covers synthetic division will be the following:

• Rewrite simple rational expressions in different forms; write a(x)/b(x) in the form q(x) + r(x)/b(x), where a(x), b(x), q(x), and r(x) are polynomials with the degree of r(x) less than the degree of b(x), using inspection, long division, or, for the more complicated examples, a computer algebra system.

So the plan is to have the students complete the problems on synthetic division then the following.

1. Review of complex numbers - They will need this when going over the factoring and finding the zeros of polynomials.
2. Review of quadratic formula - This will be helpful with finding the zeros of polynomials and will also help with the review of complex numbers.
3. Rational roots theorem - for finding the zeros of polynomials
4. Putting it all together!

After this, I will be covering rational functions, asymptotes, and then hopefully move on to exponential and logarithmic functions before ending the year with trigonometry.

Fingers crossed!

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