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Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Simplifying Square Roots With Negative Numbers
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.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Squares and Square Roots
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Approximating Square Roots Walk Through
Tutorial covers a series of questions, examples, and practice that will help students learn how to approximate square roots.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Algebra
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...
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...
Quia
Quia: Square Roots (Concentration Game)
This concentration game explores square roots. There is a link to a list of the numbers being used so students can check their answers.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is Square Root?
Briefly covers the topics of square roots, decimal numbers, and perfect squares.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Square Root
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...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Root (Of a Number)
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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Square Roots and Irrational Numbers
Math Forum response to whether square roots of all non-perfect squares are irrational. Contains a proof showing that such cases are, indeed, irrational.
Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing: Rational and Irrational Numbers
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.
Other
Dan's Math: Basic Skills Topics
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.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: The Number System 8.ns.2 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets to assess students' understanding of radicals, square roots, and irrational numbers.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Irrational Numbers and Radicals Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide highlights the main terms and formulas needed to review irrational numbers and radicals. Examples are included.
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.
Other
Platonic Realms: Conic Sections
A proof to show that the square root of two is an irrational number, followed by a shorter and even more beautiful proof.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Knowing About Numbers
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Square and Cube Challenge
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.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Roots and Radicals
Here you'll find information on radicals: notation, symbols, and laws for simplifying. The information is brief, but easy to follow.
Other
Curious math.com: Math Is an Attitude
This site offers numbers tricks to help multiply and divide large numbers mentally. There are also tricks for powers and roots of numbers.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Rei Radical Equations
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...
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra
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,...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor: Using Your Calculator
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...