Name ________________________

8.EE.2 Discovery

Squares and square roots.

32 = ______ 9 = ______ 32 = ______

42 = ______ 16 = ______ ( 4 )2 = ______

52 = ______ 25 = ______ 52 = ______

Squaring a number and taking the square root are ____________

operations.

Why does a square root have two answers?

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Cubes and cube roots.

33 = ______ 3
27 = ______ 3
33 = ______

43 = ______ 3
64 = ______ ( 3 4 )3 = ______

53 = ______ 3
125 = ______ 3
53 = ______

Cubing a number and taking the cube root are _____________

operations.

Why doesnt a cube root have two answers?

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Put each into the calculator. Notice a difference.

-12 = ______ (-1)2 = ______

-22 = ______ (-2)2 = ______

-33 = ______ (-3)3 = ______

-44 = ______ (-4)4 = ______

-55 = ______ (-5)5 = ______

-66 = ______ (-6)6 = ______

Observations about the Obersavtions about the

left column. Right column.

_______________________ __________________________

_______________________ __________________________

_______________________ __________________________

Make a statement about when a negative number raised to a

power will have a positive outcome.

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Find each square root, if you can (WHAHAHAHA).

4 = ______ 4 = ______

9 = ______ 9 = ______

16 = ______ 16 = ______
Find the square root of each fraction.

9
= ______
16

16
= ______
25

25
= ______
36

36
= ______
49

4
Explain how you could find without a calculator.
9

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Find the cube root of each fraction.

27
3 = ______
64

64
3 = ______
125

125
3 = ______
216

216
3 = ______
343

8
Explain how you could find 3 without a calculator.
27

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