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Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Roots, Exponents, and Radicals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information on powers, roots, exponents, and radicals.
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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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simplify Square Root Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice simplifying expressions with multiple radical terms. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Roots and Powers in Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
Sophia: Roots and Powers in Equations uses teacher tutorials and online assessments to introduce and analyze concepts such as addition and subtraction in roots, multiplication of roots, division of roots, root to exponent, roots and...
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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analysis: Square and Cube Root Function Families

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson shows you how to look at the graph of a square root or cubed root function and determine the equation. Students examine guided notes, review guided...
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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.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Squares and Square Roots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students complete multi-step computations using order of operations in situations involving combinations of rational numbers including whole number exponents and square roots of square numbers.
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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...
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Help Algebra

Help algebra.com: Roots

For Students 9th - 10th
After defining roots (radicals), this resource focuses on square roots. Examples are given to demonstrate how to simplify, find principal roots, and gives several properties of square roots.
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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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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Roots

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Concepts and skills covered in this activity include roots, powers of 10, and problem solving. Roots is taken from "Investigating Mathematics with Calculators in the Middle Grades".
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Exponents, Squares and Cubes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about exponents, squares, and cubes with definitions, properties, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Other

Algebra Class: Solving and Graphing a Quadratic Equation

For Students 9th - 10th
Math teacher provides a unit on quadratic equations in which she explains the concepts of solving and graphing quadratic equations through numerous examples and graphs. Hyperlinks are available to each step that ultimately leads to...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive matching game allows students to practice identifying the squares and square roots of numbers.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Solving Quadratic Equations With Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation for how to solve quadratic equations using square roots. An example is given and clearly explained.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Introduction to Roots and Radicals

For Students 9th - 10th
Sophia: Introduction to Roots and Radicals uses teacher tutorials and online assessments to introduce and analyze concepts such as Even Roots, Negative Numbers, Odd Roots, Partial Root, Perferct Squares, Radicals Root, and Roots.
Handout
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.
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...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Exponents and Radicals: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on exponents and radicals as they apply to problems involving squares, perfect squares, and square roots.
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Mr. Martini's Classroom

Mr. Martini's Classroom: Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice solving square roots by changing the difficulty and assessing knowledge with a quiz.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Elephants Truncate Roots

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners will learn the process of finding where the square root of 2 is on the number line by truncating the square of a number between 1 and 2. They will also work with other square roots to learn how to order them on the number line....
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Irrational Square Roots

For Students 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find approximate solutions to equations involving irrational numbers.
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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.