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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simplify Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th
Students solve simple square roots and receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Math.com

Math.com: Numbers: Square Roots

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The pre-algebra resource investigates square roots. Definitions, detailed examples, and practice problems are included.
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PBS

Pbs: Approximating Square Roots of Nonperfect Squares

For Students 6th - 8th
Visualize a strategy for approximating the square roots of nonperfect squares through modeling. This video focuses on a ratio, the number of extra tiles over the number of tiles for the next square that will give you a fractional...
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Quia

Ixl Learning: Square Roots

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Brush up on your math skills relating to square roots then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Square Roots of Perfect Squares

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn how to find square roots of perfect squares in this article. Also included are questions to test student's knowledge of the topic.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simplify Square Roots (Variables)

For Students 9th - 10th
Simplify square roots that contain variables in them like square root of 27a. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Approximating Square Roots

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice finding the approximate value of square roots by thinking about perfect squares. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Math Planet

Math Planet: Pre Algebra: Square Roots and Real Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides an explanation, examples, and a video lesson all related to square roots and real numbers. [1:59]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Square Roots

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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Other

Square Root on Your Computer's Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides a tutorial on using a calculator to evaluate square roots.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quadratics by Taking Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Solve quadratic equations of the form (x+a)squared-b=0. These can be solved using square roots. For example, solve (x-5)squared-4=0. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Use Square Roots to Solve Quadratic Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Solve quadratic equations involving perfect squares.
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Other

Dan's Math: Basic Skills Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
College professor Dan Bach offers a review of various basic topics in arithmetic, pre-algebra, and algebra. Order of operations, exponents, square roots, variables, and combining terms are just a few of the many topics covered.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Estimating Square Roots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Math Pages: Ancient Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Math Pages proivdes information and gives the Babylonian method for solving square root equations. The site is very intense and in-depth with good information. The material is pretty intense, however, and a background...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Squares and Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The learning activity examines squares and square roots. Topics include perfect squares, how to square a number, and the square root symbol. The resource consists of explanations and examples.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Simplifying Square Roots With Negative Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial and practice shows how to simplify radicals even with a negative number. Features include a teacher page that has a Bingo game to teach the concept.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Approximating Square Roots Walk Through

For Students 7th - 8th
Tutorial covers a series of questions, examples, and practice that will help students learn how to approximate square roots.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Equations With Square Roots and Cube Roots

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice solving equations by squaring or cubing both sides. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simplify Roots of Negative Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rewrite square roots of negative numbers as imaginary numbers. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Math Warehouse

Math Warehouse: Square Root Calculator and Solver

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students can type any positive or negative number into the square root calculator. The calculator reduces the square root to its simplest radical form.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Square Roots of Perfect Squares

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Resource provides review and practice of how to find the square root of perfect squares.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Square Root

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This math site from Mathworld.com explains what a square root is including information on imaginary numbers and many links. This site also addresses the continued fractions of positive real square roots, in particular the square root of...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Square Roots and Irrational Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math Forum response to whether square roots of all non-perfect squares are irrational. Contains a proof showing that such cases are, indeed, irrational.