Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 12:20 PM

Thank you for your question Sheri and after first reading the outcome, I have to admit I was bit confused as well so I emailed Alberta Education and here is the response.

I have a quick question about the Math 20-2 curriculum:

Here are the standards:

Solve problems that involve operations on radicals and radical expressions with numerical and variable radicands (limited to square roots)

I am assuming of this one is that it is only limited to square roots when variable radicands are involved. CORRECT? agree

Solve problems that involve radical equations (limited to square roots and cube roots)
On page 205 of the Nelson textbook they talk about the fourth root. Is this beyond the scope of the curriculum? I believe so?????absolutely beyond

I hope this answers your question.