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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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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.
Handout
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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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Algebra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides basic instruction on the major concepts in algebra. Content includes a focus on fractions, units of conversion, complex numbers, quadratic equations, factorization and roots of polynomials, solving equations, systems...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ns Placing a Square Root on the Number Line

For Teachers 8th Standards
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...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Square Roots (Concentration Game)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This concentration game explores square roots. There is a link to a list of the numbers being used so students can check their answers.
Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is Square Root?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Briefly covers the topics of square roots, decimal numbers, and perfect squares.
Handout
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...
Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Root (Of a Number)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to find the root of a number. Topics covered include two roots, roots of negative numbers, and imaginary numbers. This site offers descriptions along with multiple examples.
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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.
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Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Content, suitable for an introductory algebra course, explains the difference between rational and irrational numbers, how to rationalize the denominator, how to evaluate radicals and the square root process. Practice problems included.
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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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Common Core Sheets

Common Core Sheets: The Number System 8.ns.2 Worksheets

For Teachers 8th Standards
Print or create worksheets to assess students' understanding of radicals, square roots, and irrational numbers.
Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Square Numbers

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explore square roots and the process of squaring.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Irrational Numbers and Radicals Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive study guide highlights the main terms and formulas needed to review irrational numbers and radicals. Examples are included.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's My Number

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Other

Platonic Realms: Conic Sections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A proof to show that the square root of two is an irrational number, followed by a shorter and even more beautiful proof.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Knowing About Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students experience square roots, perfect squares, and absolute value to enhance their knowledge of numbers. Taking this awareness, students apply it to operations with integers.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Square and Cube Challenge

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice solving problems using your knowledge of square and cube roots. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Roots and Radicals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here you'll find information on radicals: notation, symbols, and laws for simplifying. The information is brief, but easy to follow.
Unit Plan
Other

Curious math.com: Math Is an Attitude

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers numbers tricks to help multiply and divide large numbers mentally. There are also tricks for powers and roots of numbers.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Rei Radical Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of the task is to show students a situation where squaring both sides of an equation can result in an equation with more solutions than the original one, because it is possible to have two unequal numbers whose squares are...
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Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a tutorial for students in algebra 2 or for those who need a refresher. The site has explanations, definitions, examples, practice problems and practice tests are found covering topics such as linear equations, graphing,...
eBook
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor: Using Your Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site deals with using a calculator to help solve and evaluate mathematical problems. This site provides a lengthy chart of basic operations performed by calculators, examples of problems to be solved using a calculator, as well as...