Adding & Subtracting Radicals - 6 Task Cards/Slides (4 problems per card/slide)

These are 6 bee themed task cards/slides to help your students practice finding the sum or difference of radical expressions (square roots only). There are 4 problems per card/slide. The first problem includes two terms, the second problem - two or three terms, the third problem - three or four terms and the fourth problem is a sum or a difference of two or three terms with variable(s).

The first and second cards are adding and subtracting radicals having the same radicands (level 1). The third, fourth, fifth and sixth cards include terms with different radicands (level 2). Students have to simplify each term to obtain a radical whose radicand is a prime number or a product of different prime numbers. After students have simplified the radical expressions they start combining the terms having the same radicands. The 6th card contains the most challenging problems.

Students can work independently or in pairs. For instance, if students will work in pairs - student A solves the cards 1 and 3, student B solves the cards 2 and 4 as students A and B work together on the rest two cards - 5 and 6)

Answer keys are included.

NOTE: This product is created as a Google Slides product. I have converted it to PDF item here. I have included 2 PDF files - the one has each slide as a page and the other has two and three slides on a page for easy and more economic printing!