Finding Square Roots Grade 8 Ms. Stewart COPY SLIDES WHEN YOU SEE THIS
The Inverse of Squaring What’s the opposite operation to addition? SUBTRACTION What’s the opposite operation to multiplication? DIVISION The opposite operation to squaring a number is taking the SQUARE ROOT. To take the square root of a number is the INVERSE operation (the opposite) of squaring a number.
Square Roots
Exercises Find the square root of each number. A) 25 B) 100 C) 36 5 is the square root, since 5 5 = = = is the square root, since = = 6 6 is the square root, since 6 6 = 36.
Relating Squares with Square Roots
Estimating Square Roots of Numbers Do numbers that are not perfect squares have square roots? How could you find approximate square roots?
Estimating Square Roots of Numbers Method 1: Method 2:
Exercises Each square root is between two integers. Name the integers. A) 80 Think: What are perfect squares close to 80? 8 2 = 6464 < = 8181 > 80 is between 8 and 9. 80
Exercises Each square root is between two integers. Name the integers. B) 45 Think: What are perfect squares close to 45? 6 2 = 3636 < = 4949 > 45 is between 6 and 7. 45