Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Finding and Estimating Square Roots

Topics for Today:

Today we discussed perfect squares and square roots.  Squaring and taking the square root are inverse operations.  Students will be asked to memorize the common perfect squares, and there is a Quizlet set that should hopefully make learning them fun.

Vocabulary: square root, principal square root, negative square root, radical, radicand, perfect squares

Sections Covered in Textbook:

10-3: Finding and Estimating Square (pages 524-528)


Resources & Tutorials:

1) What is a perfect square?
2) How do you find the square root of a perfect square?
3) How do you find the square root of a fraction?
4) How do you estimate a square root of a non-perfect square?


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