Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Square Roots (Object Interactive)
Explore a set of perfect squares, as well as their square roots using this highly interactive math resource. In addition, students will get to look at estimates of the square roots of non-perfect squares. Printable activities, solutions,...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Square Roots Video
This video illustrates the concepts of square roots, slope, and the Pythagorean Theorem as they are used in designing and constructing skate park rails, ramps, and pipes. An interactive activity is also included where students are able...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Square Root
Explore the world of square roots in this mini-lesson. Provides a definition and different methods for finding the square root of a number. Includes solved examples and practice questions with answers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Square Roots of Perfect Squares
Learn how to find square roots of perfect squares in this article. Also included are questions to test student's knowledge of the topic.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Square Roots
In this exercise, students practice finding the square roots of perfect squares. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints, watch a video, and try questions repeatedly.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Estimating Square Roots
By estimating the value of a square root students will get practice in identifying perfect squares, in checking for reasonableness of an answer, and in mental math.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ns Placing a Square Root on the Number Line
This task develops students' number sense of squares and square roots. They are to find an approximation of a less obvious square root of a number to see where it would fall on a number line. To do this, they must examine perfect squares...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Simplifying Radicals
Use this site to learn how to simplify radicals, even when the radical is not a perfect square. These examples will be a guide to you in simplifying all kinds of radicals.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's My Number
In this lesson, eighth grade middle schoolers will learn the steps necessary to approximate the square roots of numbers that are not perfect squares. Students will use a number line as a visual aid to complete this task.