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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Placing a Square Root on the Number Line

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
There are many ways to approach finding the rational approximation of an unknown square root. Here is a problem that will help math learners make a connection between square roots and their order on a number line. As usual, determine two...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Square Roots and Irrational Numbers: Estimating Radicals

For Students 8th - 10th
Try out a resource using triangles to estimate radicals. An interactive app allows learners to approximate some irrational numbers involving square roots. They find the two consecutive numbers that an irrational number lies between by...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Estimating Square Roots

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
No calculators! Assure your learners that they can find the square root of a large number. All they need are two known squares close by and a table. Come up with an additional practice and your number crunchers will have it mastered in...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Evaluation of Square Roots

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Think outside the box and use an engaging, interactive app that shows the relationship between square roots and squares using an actual square. Pupils find that moving a slider increases the side length of a square and its associated area.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Number Sense and Numeration: Square Roots

For Students 8th
In this square roots worksheet, 8th graders solve 14 different types of problems to include determining the square root of a number of problems, determining the area of a rectangle and the length of a side of a square with the same...
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Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Square and Square Roots

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Root for your pupils to learn about roots. Young mathematicians first review the meaning of squares and square roots. They then use this knowledge to simplify square roots of monomials with variables.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Does Every Complex Number Have a Square Root?

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Help the class find a better way. Pupils recall finding nth roots or a complex number in polar form from a previous module to find the square root of a complex number. Using the second installment in a series of 23, scholars discover it...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Square Roots Worksheet

For Students 7th - 10th
In this square roots worksheet, students find the square roots of numbers, find what numbers are squared, solve for lengths of sides of triangles, and more. Students complete 18 problems.
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Simplifying Square Roots

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
The square root of five and five do not have the same value! How many times have you addressed this with math classes? A lesson gives an explanation of a square root and gives examples for simplifying square root expressions,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exponential Expressions - Perfect Squares, Square Roots

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Color tiles are used to model perfect squares. Alone or in pairs, middle schoolers will find patterns. Afterward, the relationship between perfect squares and roots will be discussed as a whole class.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Existence and Uniqueness of Square Roots and Cube Roots

For Students 8th Standards
Teach cube roots by building on an understanding of square roots. The third installment of a 25-part series asks learners to solve simple quadratic and cubic equations using roots. Scholars compare square roots and cube roots throughout...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Simplifying Square Roots

For Students 8th Standards
Explore the process of simplifying square roots through an analysis of perfect squares. The fourth instructional activity of 25 expects individuals to find the perfect square factors in each radicand as a means of simplifying. The...
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Handout
Charleston School District

Evaluation of Roots

For Students 8th Standards
You mean the square root of five and five don't have the same value? Learners estimate the value of irrational roots. As they practice estimating the value, they increase their understanding of roots. The lesson is the fourth in a series...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Tangent Line Approximation: Estimating Square Roots

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Estimating a square root is as easy as evaluating a linear equation. Using the derivative of the square root function, pupils calculate an estimation of square roots. Class members determine the equation of the tangent line at the value...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Simplifying Square Roots of Whole Numbers

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Simplify your life by using a resource on simplifying square roots. Pupils review square roots and calculate values of given radical expressions using a calculator. The lesson concludes by having them consider the results to develop the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Concept: Square Root

For Teachers 7th - 10th
In this square root worksheet, students solve problems with exponents. They find the square root of given numbers. Students ill in missing numbers on a radical clock face. This eleven-page worksheet contains notes, detailed instructions...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Estimating Square Roots

For Students 9th
In this square roots worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 11 different problems that include estimating various square roots. First, they determine the value of each given square root to the nearest tenth. Then, students find the...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Graphing Cubic, Square Root, and Cube Root Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Is there a relationship between powers and roots? Here is a lesson that asks individuals to examine the graphical relationship. Pupils create a table of values and then graph a square root and quadratic equation. They repeat the process...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Square Roots

For Teachers 7th
Square away any doubts about using a new resource. Pupils learn about squares and square roots in the mini-lesson. They complete a worksheet identifying roots of perfect squares up to 400.
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EngageNY

Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Many learners find completing the square the preferred approach to solving quadratic equations. Class members combine their skills of using square roots to solve quadratics and completing the square. The resource incorporates a variety...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Squares and Square Roots

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students find patterns relating the lengths of the sides of squares to their areas. In this squares and square roots lesson, students draw squares and find their areas. They estimate the sides of square when given the area. Students use...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Square Roots Worksheet

For Students 7th - 9th
In this square roots worksheet, students calculate the value of a number squared.  They determine the square root of a number.  Students find the area of objects.  This five-page worksheet contains 10 problems.  Answers are provided.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Squares, Square Roots, and Exponential Expressions

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the concepts of square roots and exponential expressions. In this square root and exponential expression lesson, students complete an investigation called Building A Square Patio. Students use color tiles to develop the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Square Roots Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this square roots practice worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 10 problems that require them to find square roots.