1. Square and Cube Roots MRS. RAUCH

2. How do we square a number?  Can we square negative numbers?

3. Square Roots

5. Perfect Squares

6. What does cubing a number mean?

7. Cubing a number

8. Practice with cubes  4 cubed  5 cubed  6 cubed

9. Cube Roots  A cube root goes the other direction  3 cubed is 27 so the cube root of 27 is 3  The cube root of a number is a special value that when cubed gives the original number  The cube root of 27 is 3 because when 3 is cubed you get 27  When you see “root” think…… I know the tree but what is the root that produced it?

10. Practice with Cube Roots  What is the cube root of 125?  What is the cube root of 8?  What is the cube root of 1000?

11. The cube root sign

12. Can you cube negative numbers?

13. Cubing Negative Numbers  When we cube 5 we get….  When we cube -5 we get…  So can cube roots be negative?

14. Perfect Cubes