Showing posts with label negative square root. Show all posts
Showing posts with label negative square root. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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?