How to use this sheet

  • Keep a list of the perfect squares to 144 and the perfect cubes to 125 beside the sheet.
  • For estimating, have the child find the two perfect squares the number is between first.
  • Ask the child to check each root by multiplying it back.

Common mistakes

  • Dividing by 2 for a square root, so the square root of 16 becomes 8. Ask which number times itself makes 16.
  • Thinking every square root is irrational. The square root of 49 is 7, a whole number.
  • Thinking a repeating decimal is irrational. Repeating decimals are fractions, so they are rational.

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