During this trimester, I struggled a lot with rationalizing fractions. I don't remember ever learning how to rationalize in previous classes so being thrown into it was sort of difficult. On one problem I would understand what I was doing and the next I would be completely lost with it. Towards the end of the unit I sort of understood what I was doing, but I still never had a complete understanding.
The best part of this unit was dealing with the unit circle. Although I had to remember each spot, I became really good at using the unit circle, and that was my favorite part of this unit.
It's one of those little things that don't make up the whole unit, but if you can't quite understand it right away, then some of the more challenging problems become impossible. I can see how not understanding rationalizing would affect solving a trigonometric equation that had square root of 3 divided by 3. In order to get this fraction, one must know which two values divided and simplified would produce that. Much more difficult without rationalizing!
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