Squares, Cubes & Roots
Powers, the shapes behind their names, and how roots undo them.
What this lesson covers
Squares, Cubes & Roots is a 10-part Class 6 Mathematics lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.
How it begins
To square a number, multiply it by itself. We write it as a small raised 2: 4² = 4 × 4 = 16. It is called squaring because 16 counters make a perfect 4 by 4 square.
The 10 parts
- Squaring a number
- Cubing a number
- The square numbers to know
- Square roots
- Cube roots
- Estimating roots
- Where squares and roots are used
- Where marks go
- What to remember
- Watch one worked through
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